Grit for Success: Duckworth at TED

Great TED Talk recently posted on their website.

 “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”

 

Link to TED page:  http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit.html

Novogratz on a Life of Immersion

Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund.  Her efforts to start Acumen is highlighted in John Maxwell's Book, Put Your Dream To The Test (Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2011).  Maxwell uses Novogratz work as an example of someone for whom "working toward her dream brings her satisfaction."

Novogratz has presented at TED several times.  In 2010, she gave a talk entitled "Inspiring a life of immersion".  She gave several powerful examples of colleagues who have taken the difficult path in life and continued to learn on the way.  One colleague, Josephat Byaruhanga, reflected on the need for leaders to listen and be humble.   "So I conclude that, in many ways, leadership is like a panicle of rice. Because at the height of the season, at the height of its powers, it's beautiful, it's green, it nourishes the world, it reaches to the heavens. But right before the harvest, it bends over with great gratitude and humility to touch the earth from where it came."