http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/05/through-gritted-teeth/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/05/through-gritted-teeth/#comment-5434 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:50:59 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/through-gritted-teeth/#comment-5434 I’m always a tad sceptical about these measures of “success”. A lot of the truly “successful/gritty” people I have known could have also been described as “unbalanced, too narrowly focused, overly aggressive, deeply unhappy, desperately driven, overly ambitious.”.
While society benefits from their characteristics it’s deemed as “success” and “grit”.
When a smallest change in direction for these people brings them into conflict with society… It’s suddenly, “obsessive, dangerous, deranged, bad, lost the plot, evil, hubris”.
Yet mostly when I have looked, these people haven’t really changed… merely societies evaluation of their output.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/05/through-gritted-teeth/#comment-5433 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:03:02 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/through-gritted-teeth/#comment-5433 Interesting – I know (anecdote alert!) quite a few children who are ballet nuts (boys and girls)- they are so dedicated to getting on in ballet, it’s frightening. (They also get whatever marks are necessary in school for their parents to “let” them carry on with ballet). Could it be that disposition feeds into type of interest feeds into “grit”? Do some activities inspire more “gritty” behaviour – and in some cultures – than others?

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