Podcast Episode 029: Part 3 of Grit, “Growing grit from the outside in”

by Mark Whitmore

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast:
Book Club: Part 3 of Grit, “Growing grit from the outside in”
Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore and guest Josh Gordon, President of Full Spectrum Marketing ( https://www.fsm.agency/ ) continue the conversation in this third installment of the book Grit: The power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth. Website: https://angeladuckworth.com/

Josh Gordon is an award-winning journalist and award-winning marketing communications professional with over 2 decades of experience in all types of marketing communications and advertising. He has experience in a variety of industries, from software start ups to global medical device companies, to community-based marketing strategies for government, education, and nonprofit. Josh has led Full Spectrum Marketing (FSM) in downtown Akron, Ohio since 2015, with the goal of building a mission-driven marketing communications company that can become the best partnership the firm’s clients will ever have.

0:00 Intro
1:35 Big take-aways from this section of the book…
6:26 Somebody has to have a robust vision…. Unity…
9:16 Fighting against discord
11:28 Imitate leads to emulate…
12:47 Soft culture (culture of convenience)
15:41 Chapter 10 on Parenting, authoritarian vs authoritative (wise parenting) – See page 212 in the book.
17:27 Teasing out the definition of a parent, derives from a Latin term “to bring forth”
20:40 The parenting assessment on page 214…
33:08 Do you have a vision for your family? Surviving or flourishing
37:04 “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
37:59 Parenting in a gritty way: doing the hard stuff when you don’t feel like it…
40:43 The hard thing rule in chapter 11, has 3 parts (page 241) The first part of the hard thing rule: everyone has to do 1 thing that is hard, that requires daily deliberate practice.
43:14 Second part, is that you can quit. But only at a natural stopping point.
43:32 Third part, you get to pick your hard thing, nobody else picks it for you.
49:30 Don’t underestimate the value of discernment
50:30 Character is a plurality of things…
50:49 Grit and OCD can look similar…
51:24 The goal setting chapter…
51:40 Virtue clusters: will, heart, and mind
52:48 Character is a bit of a loaded word…
53:09 Character comes down to 3 things: Integrity (doing the right thing when no one
is looking), the ability to create clarity, moral authority
54:16 Any things you’ll change in your life after reading this book? 2 Things: Relationship between poverty and opportunity and the word Sisu
56:50 The word Sisu (from Finland) “It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win.” – Quote in the book (Page 251) from a feature on Sisu in Time magazine, 1940
1:03:23 There are no painless pathways…
1:04:25 Teddy Roosevelt quote (Page 254)
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt

About Angela:
Angela Duckworth is co-founder, chief scientist, and a board member of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2013 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Prior to her career in research, she was a math and science teacher at public schools in New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Angela shares research-backed advice for parents and teachers in her Tip of the Week.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).

The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance.

In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.

“Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).

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Mark Whitmore

Mark Whitmore is the Head Coach and founder of Lodestone True North, a dynamic firm of experienced business coaches who help entrepreneurs and managers get to their Land of Awesome.

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