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“Only when they [firefighters] enjoyed the work did the desire to help others result in more effort”

Listened to this book for 2 nights to fall asleep. To my surprise I really thoroughly enjoyed it. It is hard to describe without it sounding so very basic. The author does a great job explaining what she understands grit to be. It is more about small consistent actions driven towards an ending compass philosophy. Grit is not doing forcing something you hate- it is consistently chipping away in the pursuit a passion

Dang this is a tough book to get through. I heard it was originally 3 books that they republished as one encyclopedically long one.

Can apply to so many different areas of life. Just replace tennis with whatever you are struggling to learn.

“Where science is silent, narrative creeps in”

Running a bit long. Getting a bit redundant.