Grit (A review)
Grit was a cool book.
First recommended to me by deltoidal_icositetrahedron a few months ago, I finally finished it. I also took a break from reading it and reading in general so that might've been a reason why.
To summarize, Grit arises from passions and perseverance. Passion as the purpose, and perseverance for the continuation of a subject.
Anyways its a very complicated book you should read it yourself :)
This book was a little on the long side - it has a lot of chapters (like 12) so yeah. This also isn't a really interesting book to read if you're in a hurry or like being rigorous - there hasn't been much scientific study on the topic of grit. As a result, the book ends up being largely anecdotal (which Duckworth herself acknowledges).
This book can also be grouped (broadly) into the category of pop-sci as although the information presented is scientific, it's meant more to appeal and is kind of written like a self-help book as opposed to one that summarizes all the evidence. That's pretty cool but also not really if you're just trying to figure out the science behind this.
Anyways like any cool idea Duckworth gave a TED talk on this so if you want a summary of the book in 10 minutes go check that out.
This book's pretty cool. Read it if you want. Ideally go buy it from your local library for a discounted price as it's a book that has a place on the bookshelf.
Right now I'm reading Snowden's biography and another book on Bullet Journaling (and EGMO - Euclidean Geometry for Mathematical Olympiads) and I'm liking the first and the third so we'll see how it all works out.
Below, I've linked some of my MD (markdown) notes on one of the subjects relating to grit.
Anyways, you should probably take care of your eyes more
"The Best and the Brightest" But are the brightest the best?
I mean they might be the brightest, but best has a situational/contextual component that needs to be acknowledged.
Often, we confused brightness with skill - those that are smarter are "better"
but are they? no