Grit

by Harvard Business Review

In the face of hardship, you need perseverance and determination. You need grit. But how do you build it? This book explores how you can persist in difficult situations. You'll learn how to convince yourself to do hard things, find support in trying circumstances, and know when you're pushing yourself too hard. This volume includes the work How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Genres: Business, Audiobook, Nonfiction, Self Help

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2023

Reviews

[Colleen Chi-Girl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is best for entry level people in the workforce and for college and high school students. It’s basic and a collection of short and smart articles to help develop coping skills and general good outlook on being a strong person in your business and personal lives.

[Roberto Calderón · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pragmatic. Concise. Eloquent. Maybe too much, but makes good point for everyday life, and applied to specific expertise areas.

[Olavio · Rating 5 out of 5]

liat dari review sih pada suka GRIT versi yg lain yaa karena lebih advance. tp buatku, ini adalah salah satu buku yang life changing!

why?
buku ini bikin aku merefleksikan lagi apa faktor dan sebab akibat atas setiap keputusan hidup yang ku ambil. banyak banget "hah" momentnya pas baca ini wkkww. but, terpenting...

buku ini gerakkin aku untuk menggagas ulang apa yang akan jadi tujuan hidupku jangka panjang. aku mau ngapain? bagaimana aku menilai diriku? apa 'treatment' yang pas untuk kondisiku? juga, bagaimana caraku memandang masalah dan caraku ngetreat masalah yang ada.

ada banyak bagian yang aku highlight di buku ini, contohnya:
"You can't choose the raw material, but you can decide how you're going to use it. Many people don't do that."
it hit me so hard. karena pas banget lagi ada problem cukup kompleks di keluargaku yang bikin gedeg dan membuat aku mempertanyakan, kenapa harus ada di keluarga yang seperti ini? gimana ya kalau ternyata aku lahir di keluarga yang, menurut standarku, adalah ideal dan bisa jadi katalis atas segala mimpi-mimpiku.
tapi ya... apa sih gunanya terus-terusan menggugat hal yang udah jadi kenyataan? I have the power. I have free will. Aku punya kekuatan untuk mengolah 'that raw material' jadi something yang bernilai dan mengantarkan ke mimpi yang aku jaga.
It's about focusing my goal and purpose.

"To get better at doing hard things, you need to do hard things."
Ini juga cukup menampar pikiran-pikiran burukku yang selalu merasa masih jauh banget dari sosok leader. Ya memang. Ya gapapa, kan emang masih jauh... the best way buat aku bisa belajar jadi leader yang baik yaaaa adalah jadi leader! instead of aku terus-terusan questioning myself, mending aku fokus improve dan belajar dari hard things itu. susah? banget. capek? lumayan. tapi puas soalnyaa aku bertumbuh:)

aku baca ini cepet banget. sekali duduk udah setengah bukuu. di dudukan kedua langsung selesai. anyway aku tuh super lazy and moody reader, tapii ini bahasanya ringan PWOL dan tipis :D
recommended terutama buat yang baru mulai karir~

[SarahElizabeth Greenmyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The most privilege take on Grit I've ever read. I will recommend chapters 4, 6, & 7, but you can probably skip the rest. I expected better.

Chapt. 6
Pg. 69 "Not giving up can mean that people persist even when they have nothing to gain."
Pg. 70 "So while it might be valuable to persist with worthwhile and rewarding tasks, people who don't quit often continue with worthless tasks that are both uninteresting and unrewarding, ultimately wasting their time and talent."
Pg. 71 "Being unwilling to let go can lead to people being perpetually dissatisfied -- even when they end up getting what they wanted."
Pg. 72 "People who tend to be tenacious are also those who get trapped into losing courses of action."

[Michelle♥ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audiobook

I like this series. I don’t have a lot of time these days for listening to books, but I tend to lean towards listening to non fiction books. That being said, I prefer them to be quick.

This entire HBR Emotional Intelligence series has each one less than two hours, which fits into my busy lifestyle.

There are a compilation of multiple articles and voices on what Grit is. It’s entertaining and keeps my attention.

These are not super in-depth but rather a 30,000 level view of the topic.

[Pann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected more from a harvard business review. I did not expect the quality of the content to be so low, so generic and hard to implement. It does not contain anything useful or anything that sticks other than the fact that the entire content and wisdom of the book is literally the description of grit from the first website when you search. I don't think this book offer any wisdom. It's a combination of stiching multiple articles, interviews together.

[Arun Narayanaswamy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like every HBR Book, this too is a collection of various articles forced together into one book.

I would rate this quite low. Only saving grace for this book is one specific article on the negative aspects of grit. Other than this, there is literally nothing in this book to learn. Big advice to HBR is to stop forcing multiple articles into a book. Don’t waste your time on this.

[Amur3n · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good high level

[Ahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rating: 2.5/5

Repetitive, redundant information that contributes little (if any) in the 130 pages it hosts…

[Jermaine Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for people who just started to understand Grit. However, it is too packed on every chapter - best to read the books of Authros mentioned on each chapter.