Perseverance.

Persistence.

Resilience.

Trending words right now.  Ones I hear on a daily basis from all my clients.  But what do they really mean and how relevant are these traits in our day-to-day professional challenges?

Very interesting take on what makes us ‘gritty’ and how related this is to the relentless drive for Talent Acquisition in organisations today: “Talent doesn’t make you gritty. Grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.”.

Watch Angela Lee Duckworth’s full TED Talk to learn what does: http://t.ted.com/98BZQRQ and her insights into what is ‘grit’ and that it’s not the lucky or the talented that excel but the ones who develop a belief they get good at things.

Grit: The power of passion and perseverance