Getting Gritty With It

5/5/2016

The above talk is all about how it isn’t only IQ and intelligence that predict your chances of success in life. It turns out that GRIT, persistence and sticktoitiveness are far more important than what test scores say. How can you use the growth mindset to help you become more gritty?

Using the above ted talk as inspiration, write a one to two paragraphs that will inspire someone else. There doesn’t have to be a specific topic, only that your end goal is to inspire and engage your reader with a story or idea that will help them develop themselves as a grittier person.

Want to see how gritty you are? Take the test and follow the instructions at the bottom.

Vib

5/8/2016 07:55:24 am

I think I can get more gritty by trying beyond what I know.Even if I know that it may take a long time.Like swimming on your own without any experience. But as you go along with it you don't give up .You get gritty.You try hard and try even harder to swim.Then you finally get the heng of it.That is what happens in school.You find something brand new that you can't easily learn.You keep trying to find a salutation then you concentrate and use your growth mind set.Then you get determined to find a way to solve this problem.Then you learn it by yourself or you get help.The End. Also that video is inspiring.

Remember after every period you have to put either one or two spaces!

5/8/2016 08:25:12 am

Khushi

5/8/2016 06:27:39 pm

Grittiness! It means being brave,being courageous and being stronger and tougher as a person. Before I didn't even know what grittiness was and what it meant but as I looked it into it more and watched the video it all made sense. It all depends on the person and their personality. It's all about people and who we are as who we are. Sometimes the smallest things can change a persons life and change a person but inly if they want to. Grittiness is all about who we are and who we're going to become. Anyways here is the link to the assignment...

~https://docs.google.com/a/hdsb.ca/document/d/10l7ZiV9jBC6O9LPpCDWLLqNRV68LZMub8RHMbuzTQTA/edit?usp=sharing

To end this off I'm going to tell you a quote...

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
That quote was by: ~Anonymous

~Toodles
~Khushi Out
~The leader of the couch potatoes
~Ok I'm done! BYEEEE

Khushi

5/8/2016 06:36:12 pm

Sorry posted twice by accident!!!! OOPSIES!

Khushi

5/8/2016 06:35:23 pm

Grittiness means being brave,being courageous and being tough and strong as a person. Before this assignment I didn't even know what grittiness was and what it meant but I researched about it and it just depends on the person and it just means that who we are aa people and as individuals and what it means to live life. It also means that sometimes we need to step out of our comfort zone and do something we wouldn't normally do. Anyways here is the link to my assignment...

~https://docs.google.com/a/hdsb.ca/document/d/10l7ZiV9jBC6O9LPpCDWLLqNRV68LZMub8RHMbuzTQTA/edit?usp=sharing

To end this off here is quote:

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
By: ~ Anonymous

~Toodles
~Leader of the lazy people
~Khushi out
Ok I'm done now!
~Bye Bye

Javed

5/8/2016 06:47:52 pm

I think the way to get more gritty is to never give up on your self. Keep trying, keep pushing through it. If it takes weeks months or even years to get gritty, let it be, stay calm. Be patient. For example, going on a rollercoaster by yourself. ( Leviathan) People might think that it is scary to ride it all alone. In this case, let's say that this person was afraid of it. They tried to overcome their fear but it doesn't work out and they want to get off of it.

Then they start talking to themselves and saying that they believe in them self and they can do it. " I CAN DO THIS!" They say I am okay, I am confident. I can get over my fear of heights!!! The rollercoaster is moving SUPER fast down hill and they kid is enjoying them self and they can fell like they can do anything they want. The kid is proud of himself for saying that so he can do it!!!

Paul

5/10/2016 11:52:00 am

Flag football is a sport some of my cousins play and after watching a few of their games last year I asked my Mom if I could play this year. My Mom signed me up for this summer and I was really anxious and nervous to start playing. When I got to my first practice one of the other Mom's approached mine to say welcome and to let us know that all the boys on the team had played together for 3 years and most of them go to the same school. When I heard this I wanted to run to the car. Why you may ask? Because I thought the team wouldn't want me because I had never played the sport and didn't know them. This other Mom called her son and another boy over to meet me and they were very nice to me. This really helped me get the courage to run over to talk to my coach and introduce myself. The coach was super nice as well and has taught me so much in the past couple of weeks. I'm still learning all the plays but anytime I ask my teammates for help they always give it. This past weekend I scored my first touchdown and my team is undefeated. I am really happy that I chose not to run back to the car that first day. I've learned that when life comes knocking and presents you with an opportunity to have fun or learn something new - open the door.
paul

Blake

5/10/2016 02:13:45 pm

Here is one way I can get more grittier.

Imagine this.

You are playing baseball and It is the bottom of the 9th and you are down by 5 runs.

I know you probably think you are going to lose right?

Well now you need to get gritty and pull out this win.

Here is one example of how to get more gritty.
Some stuff is hard but this example is tricking yourself.
What you need to do is "Don't think about the score"
I know it sounds odd but some people might give up if they are losing.
That is my one example of how to get more gritty.

What I need to do is to not think about the score.

That is how I can keep a growth mindset.

Yerin

5/10/2016 04:05:09 pm

Do you have a huge dream or goal you want to achieve? It can be anything from graduating to becoming a proffesional tennis player. But if you can't even stay being a kindergarten helper because you are too lazy (like me). Then how can you do something huge like becoming an astronaut. If you think about this, you may say "But becoming an astronaut is much more important then helping stink kindies, of course I will be comitted." But that isn't always true. No matter what something is, if you start it, you should finish it.

Everything can be frusturating, and make you just want to quit, for example in a sports game, you are losing for the first half. What should you do? Well you definitely shouldn't run outside and scream. Be confident, look for a prize in the future, you can always catch up in the second half and win.

So the answer to achieving your goals? Grit. Being Gritty means to stick with your commitments despite the competition and challenges, so next time you think about quitting something, think about the future, if you have a job and you don't feel like going, will you quit?

To wrap this up, Being gritty=Being successful , so if you have unfinished buisness, make sure you finish it and move on.

~~YERIN

Great Job

5/10/2016 05:39:13 pm

Emily

5/11/2016 04:23:52 am

I believe being gritty is one of the main things that would take you to the next step in learning, and being gritty means hardworking and strong, independent person. Anyways, back to the assignment.
The number one rule is to be gritty! If you want to get a dream life, the key to that is being gritty. Everyday, there are lots of people outside and on the street. Who knows what they're doing... But you know what you're doing. Imagine you are getting a project that is 90% of your mark, and that is your best subject but you didn't do well in it because you thought if you do it at the last second it would be fine. But if you are gritty, at least you tried your hardest. Remember, being gritty would bring you far, very far. If you quit, you lose…

~Emily

Monica

5/11/2016 01:35:48 pm

Everyone has a part of themselves that they havn't discovered yet. It could be playing a instrument, it could be a sports or it could be something else...

I think that the first paragraph is a complete LIE.
I believe that everyone is good at everything, but if they wanna reach the top level they need to try there best and develop grit.

Here are some inspirational stuff you can read to develop grit:
1) Believe in yourself
2) Your "I can" is more important than your "IQ"

That is all the inspiration I can think of...
~Monica

Haider

5/11/2016 01:27:21 pm

When I was 9 years old I had lots of cavitys on my teeth, so I had to go to the dentist but I hated going to the dentist because all the tools they have makes me feel like there will be blood all over my mouth at the end of the day. So at that day my mom tricked me by saying "Let's go buy some candy"so I can get in the car, when we got to the dentist I was so scared that my heart was pumping so fast and my face was starting to be red because I am about to cry. I went to the washroom splashed cold water on my face and said to myself "COME ON HAIDER! you can do this, Just walk into that room and sit on that comfy looking chair for just 15 mins. I slap my face right and left 3 times then shake my head and go sit down on the chair. At the end of the day I was surprised that I didn't cry but it still hurts because I got a needle at least now I don't have cavitys.

Tom__/,.,.<<>>

5/11/2016 01:27:28 pm

I can get more gritty by never give up.
For example: basketball my most favorite sports. I started learning basketball when I was 7, at the first half year I was not able to shoot the ball in the basket, I hated a little at that time because most people could throw the ball in and did cool moves, I asked my dad if I can learn anything else. My dad said that I need to keep doing it so I get better, he also said to not give up. I and my dad practice basketball every week.
After one year I was able to shoot the basket and did some cool moves. That's why I am good at basketball.
I did't made the school basketball team, I know what I need to improve on, I still practice basketball when I have time, I would not give up. Hope I can make the team next time.

ANABANANA :D

5/11/2016 01:59:09 pm

When you wake up and get ready and eat something you are probably going out the door and for a reason to maybe to go to school, work, the gym or to go visit grandma for a cup of tea the point is you always have a reason. But before you go think to your self what am I doing? Is it good or bad? Will it be wrong? Will it maybe be illegal? If I do something wrong what will I get out of it? Is it worth it? Let me tell you something if it is the wrong thing to do don't do it!!! No matter what you get out of it, it's still the wrong thing to do.

Remember if its not a good thing don't do it. It could be really bad. From now on I hope you make the right dissension and I also hope this speech or what ever it was made a difference in what you do and how you think of your reasons.

thank you ~ ANABANANA :D

Sydney

5/11/2016 02:51:20 pm

One Day last year I broke my and surely it hurt a lot but honestly I did the worst thing ever…
I played soccer without a cast later that night!!! I Have to say it was difficulty and I could tell people were staring wondering If I was alright, but one of the reasons I didn't stop was because I didn't want too, I wanted to give it all even If my all was a little I wanted to come home feeling proud. In that moment I didn't want to give up because I knew I needed to be strong I believe that is one of the characteristics defining Gritty.

In life we will all face obstacles and some will quit but you have to get stuck you need to get mad because after you reach the answer it would be worth it. We are so lucky to have amazing role models (terry fox) and even songs pursuing us to follow our dreams such as ‘what doesn't kill you makes you stronger’.because if we didn't have this we wouldn't have achieved how much we have now even at this age. This is why I encourage to be your own person and do what you want to do because you want to do it not because anybody else does.

Chloe

5/11/2016 03:28:28 pm

A few years ago I started to try to raise the puck in hockey! Every night I would go into the basement and practice shooting! I knew that this wouldn't come easy and I kept on trying! I did this because I really wanted to get the puck in the air and I didn't want to give up. So one day I made a goal, my goal was to shoot 50 to 75 pucks a night. I knew if I kept on following through on my goal I would get the puck in the air! A few nights later I finally got the puck in the air and I was very happy and proud of my self.

We all have our ups and downs but if you can keep your head up then you can survive the challenges life gives you. Be nice and be yourself! Remember if someone doesn't like who you are don't try to change yourself. You have to keep on going until you reach your goals!

-Chloe

Aidan P.

5/11/2016 03:30:43 pm

I want to get more gritty in school and I want to do that by.
1 Trying my best!
2 Never give up!
3 Always listen to good advice!
I am gritty about track cycling and I wish that I could be the best but I have to train so every night before I go to bed I do a work out and every day I have being getting better

Aidan Roseland-Barnes

5/11/2016 03:57:37 pm

Last year I started to play the trombone. My sister was getting her trumpet serviced and I decided I would try an instrument. I saw the trombone and didn't know anything about so decided to try it. They brought me a really clean mouth piece and a trombone. I started to randomly play 5 notes. I was really surprised and glad I did it so I decided to stick with the trombone. I started taking lessons with a professional three weeks later on every Friday. After all those practices there, practices in school and at home I got to be good. I get assigned a new song every two or three Fridays. At first it is very challenging but then after a while of practicing I got good at the song and went to another. Sometimes I don't fell like playing but I do anyways. Anything helps!! ;)
Moral of the story is always try your best and do it even if you don't want to.

Nicole

5/11/2016 05:06:03 pm

So as you probably know I love to golf. The reason is because golf is super challenging and I like challenges. But golf isn't just challenging at the putting or driving. Golf is a sport that is challenging mentally as well. A lot of the time you would get made because you messed up on a shot. Then you are mad as you walk up to your next shot. Then you hit another bad shot. But if you are gritty this will happen.

Put yourself in this position. You are playing in a golf tournament. And it's almost the end and you are in the lead by 3 strokes. Then you come across the 18th hole. You hit a great drive and walk up to your ball confidently. Take a couple practice swings and then you go up to your ball. You skull the ball and it just rolls 20 yards where it could go up to green. All you have to do is take a deep breath and get back in the game. It's not over. You have time to catch up. So you walk up to your ball confidently like you are starting over. Once you reach your shot and go up to the ball you hit a great shot! All you had to do was pretend like you started over and not worry about your next shot.

That happens to me a lot. And I'm going to get better at that too every time it happens. The growth mindset teaches you that failing is just another way of learning.

Rayna

5/11/2016 05:52:27 pm

Karate is a sport that physically and mentally challenges you. At times I want to just give up because it's too big of a challenge, and that's where GRIT comes into play. Here's and example of me at a karate tournament...

It was my turn to go up and fight. I may have looked ok but in my head I was a wreck!!!! My palms were sweating, my was thumping so loud I'm surprised the girl beside me didn't hear me. See I was so nervous because the girl I was going up against was huge. She had to be at least 6 feet tall (slight exaggeration). Bottom line is she was way taller and stronger than I was. Which got me nervous. I wanted to leave right then and there, but I knew if I left I would be very disappointed with myself and regret it later. So I decided to be gritty and continue the fight. It was quite shocking when I found out I won. See with out grit I would have never made it that far.

Just remember that grit means to persevere and continue no matter the challenge, because if you give up on every challenge you would not get anywhere in life. The only way to be successful is to pick yourself up when you fail.

Kai

5/12/2016 02:19:52 pm

Their have been lots of time where I wanted to give up, but I had to think about what would happen if I do and if I don't. One time I shot 500 pucks in a day, and I felt like giving up. Eventually I realized that if I give up then I wouldn't get any better, but I also realized that if I keep on going that I would get a lot better. So, I kept on shooting and I slowly started to improve on each game. By the time my hockey season ended my shot got a lot better and I can go and shoot 500 pucks without complaining. If you ever feel like giving up than just imagine on how much it matters to you. If you have to give up (Than it's your fault if you suck) and you won't be better.
If you get a math test and you get 1+1, and you just can't figure it out, than ask someone for help, OR just count your fingers! But if your simply that dumb than theirs no point of even trying. If you ever feel like giving up, than follow these rules,
1: You are the only one that you are letting down if you give up
2: The harder you try, the easier it becomes the next time
3: If you always reach for a goal higher then your previous one, than you will be better than you think

Noah

5/12/2016 05:19:25 pm

I have read a book before called Grit to Great and it talks how if you have grit (I will explain what it is later) that you can do anything that you have always wanted to do, or dreamed of doing as long as you have grit. I really liked the book, it talked about all these famous people who started something big because they had GRIT, and my favourite example Dave Thomas, you may not recognise the name but you may recognise it, if you don't I will give you a hint by telling you the name of his daughter's name, ready, it is... Wendy Thomas. Still you might not know it yet and what Dave Thomas created is...

WENDY'S

So back on track at the start of when it was talking about him it talked about how he had a really rough childhood and that his feet are messed up because he wore shoes that he had way outgrown and near when it started to talk about how we created Wendy's he created grit from his childhood and so when got turned down he didn't give up because he was so passionate for his idea that he was not going to let it die ( also bonus Wendy's was started in Canada). So back on track, again I just said what grit is, grit is when you care for something and when you try hard and you don't succeed, you try harder tomorrow because you will NOT give UP until you make that first dollar or when you complete your first task but do you stop there NO because you want to make another dollar and get another store... so that is what grit is and grit is a good thing to have in life.
You know what my favourite part of the book was when the said why the patties are square not circle like everyone else, it is because there is... no corners cut, no easy way outs and no giving up.

-Noah

-Don't give up

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Lucas

5/12/2016 06:11:36 pm

A lot of people are very very very talented and can do amazing things but when they try something they don't really have passion they don't really try again if they mess up and that is really bad because just like the video said you need to have grit to be great to need to be passionate for what you are doing and if you mess up or maybe don't succeed don't just drop everything and say " I'm done I just cant do it anymore" you need to say " I can do it I can do it" because if you keep going after you don't succeed that is how you will succeed.

If is is something from just completing this really hard question on a piece of work or making the NBA I guarantee you that you will not be 100 % successful but in those times when you don't succeed are you are not 100 % percent successful that is when you can be your most successful because if you tell yourself " I can do it just try hard" you will become successful and when you don't give up and you just keep going the chances are that you will succeed.

I really liked this video because it sounded like this person was gritty it sounded like when this person wasn't successful she din't give up it sounded like she was gritty and that she was really hard working and passionate. I think that she was trying to get people to notice that if you try your best even on the second or third time that you try you can be as successful as anybody else can. I think that is true because when people try their best they do their best but when people don't succeed on the first try they get down and they don't try their best on the second or third time.

Here is one thing that I would like to get more gritty at.

Sometimes in a hockey game or something like that and we are losing really badly I don't really try my best because all I think about is that we are not going to win and that we are losing but that is something that I really want to stop because maybe if I try my best even if we are losing terribly we can come back but I want to become more gritty at that and I think if I do that I will feel a lot more better when the game ends because I can say to myself " well I tried my best".

I think that grit really is the key to success because you will not succeed every time and when you don't succeed every time you just need to try harder next time and you can't give up no matter what and hey who knows what can happen.

- Lucas

:)

Cali-Rose

5/12/2016 07:39:26 pm

HELLO TODAY!!! ok so I'm going start.(this is the first thing that came to my head)

Even if you don't have a friend you can try your best to make one then you just start getting friends even if it is not in the first week.

sometimes when you get a friend your friend has more friends so you become friends with them

(I didn't know what to say.)
~BYE FOR NOW!!!
~Cali-Rose

:(:) ----pig

:)

Jessica

5/16/2016 02:29:59 pm

I think that grit is a great thing because if you have grittiness you can do anything, for example (if you don't have grit) your in a piano competition and you think your going to lose and you don't have grit and you don't believe in your self enough and you mess up and you could have won if you had a little more grit.
(This is you have grit). Your in a piano competition and you believe in your self enough and you do believe in your self enough for you to be victories and you don't mess up and you win. So that is why I think grit is important.

~ Jessica

Salma

5/17/2016 06:40:34 am

Getting gritty to me means basically means to never give up. when I was in grade 4 me and my whole family and some of my friends would go to this huge soccer field and always played together. I would get pretty mad when people would steal the ball from me so I decided to just stay in the sidelines while everyone still kept playing. I saw everyone stealing the ball from each other and they were still happy,and they tried to get the ball again. I realized that that's the whole point of soccer you're suppose to try and steal the ball from your opponent so you can try to get the ball in the net. After watching everyone play and seeing how much fun they had even when they would steal the ball from them got me to want to play with them again. SO I played,And some people stole the ball from me but it was still really fun and I stole it back. After a few weeks I tried out for the soccer team and I made it. I was really happy that I never gave up on playing soccer because it's still one of my favourite sports to play!

Dominique

5/24/2016 04:54:26 pm

Ok I will put something that will inspire somebody to be gritty (I hope :P)

Ok you dont have to be smart to be gritty you just need to believe that your are gritty... JUST DO IT!!!! (sorry had to do it at some point...) Have faith in yourself and you can do it! Your teachers, friends, neighbors and your pets believe in you! If you just believe in yourself and have faith you can do anything...even be gritty! So don't give up! Never leave education behind because it's "too hard"! You can do anything! And a quote...

"Believe in yourself and you will be unstopable"
(anonymous)

Thx!
~Dominique

Amber

5/26/2016 01:36:41 pm

I think that grit means to not give up on what you beleive in. E.G I WAS IN DANCE FROM THE AGE OF 2 TO THE AGE OF 7 OR 8 . Anyways I gave up and now i regret giving up

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