What makes the difference between success and just getting by? Researcher Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania, thinks that the answer is "grit" -- not the stuff that gets between your toes at the beach, but the kind that Edison believed in when he said that "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Grit in her terms is the ability to stick to your vision in spite of setbacks and the passing of time.

Well worth the read: see the article at: http://bit.ly/TruthAboutGrit

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