GRIT

GRIT Pie

https://prezi.com/x6coghe3zlit/grit-pie/#

What is Grit?

courage and resolve; strength of character

Perseverance

Jessica Cox

Born without arms, Jessica Cox has learned to overcome obstacles on a daily basis. Jessica is an international keynote and motivational speaker.

Born in 1983 in Sierra Vista, Arizona, Jessica has learned to live her life with her feet. There were many questions at the time about whether Jessica would be able to live a “normal” life. However, Jessica’s father has said he never shed a tear about her birth condition. He had full confidence in her potential. With the support of her parents and family, Jessica became confident in herself as an adult and continued to explore the world with her feet.

She is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.

Bruno Mars

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/there-s-no-dishonor-in-having-a-disability-steven-claunch#review

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/there-s-no-dishonor-...

Mindset

Mindsets are beliefs—beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities.

Think about your intelligence, your talents, your personality. Are these qualities simply fixed traits? Are they carved in stone and that’s that?

Or are they things you can cultivate throughout your life?

Fixed Mindset

With a fixed mindset, basic qualities, such as intelligence or talent, are considered fixed traits. These are things that cannot be changed.

Often time and effort is expended documenting intelligence or talent instead of developing intelligence and talent. Those with a fixed mindest believe that talent alone creates success—without effort.

Growth Mindset

With a growth mindset most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point.

This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.

Consider...

What are Grit and Self-Control?

Grit is the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals. Self-control is the voluntary regulation of behavioral, emotional, and attentional impulses in the presence of momentarily gratifying temptations or diversions. On average, individuals who are gritty are more self-controlled, but the correlation between these two traits is not perfect

Self-control Strategies

• identifying feelings
• cool-down
• think positively
• set expectations
• think about choices
• if... then... plan

Cool Down... Relaxation Techniques

• Deep breathing
• Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. The person next to you should be able to hear your breathing. Breathe in four counts, breathe out 8 counts. Put your hand on your stomach and feel the flow of your breathing
• Tensing and relaxing muscles
• Lean back in your chair in a comfortable position. Now, everyone tense up your muscles as hard as you can. Make sure you’ve got all the muscles in your legs, arms, neck shoulders really hard and tense. OK, hold it … now relax everything.
• Go through all your muscles starting with your neck, and make sure they are all relaxed now. Now tighten your shoulders, your arms and body, and your legs.
• Visual relaxation
• Close our eyes, relax your muscles. Try to imagine that you are lying on the beach. You can hear the ocean. It is early in the morning and the sun is just beginning to rise. You can feel it begin to touch your toes. Your toes feel the warmth of the sunlight (Pause). The sun is rising a bit further now and you can feel the sunlight move up your feet (Pause).
• Continue in a similar manner. Describe the movement of the sunlight and the warmth over the entire body. When you have reached their heads, tell them they can now feel the warmth over their whole bodies. Wait 20 seconds. After you guide them through the beach example once, ask them to go through the exercise a second time using their own experience.

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/wieber_suchodoletz_etal_ifthenplanning_11.pdf

http://www.barrington.ri.gov/documents/BAYTeam/Reach%202017.4/WOOP%20Toolkit%20for%20Educators.pdf

“if [obstacle],

then I will [effective

action]” plan

Amazingly, you are two to three times more likely to succeed if you use an if-then plan than if you don't.

• If I feel stressed, then I will take three long deep breaths.
• If I’m going to work on homework, then I will put my phone on do not disturb.
• If my friend or teacher want to tell me something, then I will stop whatever I’m doing to listen to them.

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/wieber_suchodoletz_etal_ifthenplanning_11.pdf

http://www.barrington.ri.gov/documents/BAYTeam/Reach%202017.4/WOOP%20Toolkit%20for%20Educators.pdf

“if [obstacle],

then I will [effective

action]” plan

How to start...

Identify wishes

Identify outcomes

Identify obstacles

Design a plan

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xVXGSfDZ7Xs9t2iMrmAabXNYp1FLOSTI