What a horrible article. The title talks about grit but then they commingled the 10,000 hour mastery concept into the conversation. > “Things like grit and 10,

What a horrible article. The title talks about grit but then they commingled the 10,000 hour mastery concept into the conversation. > “Things like grit and 10,000 hours are mindsets that are very misleading because they are consequences not causes — they are lagging indicators of performance,” said Todd Rose, who is the author of The End of Average, a book that illustrates how averages are flawed in understanding human achievement. If we take grit to be "fire-in-the-belly" I have observed as a parent, mentor/coach of high school and adults and high performing team lead that it has several characteristics that a parent, coach, mentor, manager and even peer should be aware of. I like the "fire" analogy. As a parent I can put water on my child's fire and put it out. I can be over-bearing, abusive etc. As a manager there are many things I can do to do the same like micro manage them. As a parent I can help flame the fire (think adding fuel and oxygen). I can give them earned respect, greater levels of responsibilities and coach them with a growth mindset. I have parented, managed and mentored with an intention to make the flame lager since I first had a manager responsibility and discussed this concept with Dr. Michael Stonebreaker in the early 1980s. So far it has seemed to work for me. Genetics and early environment seems to me to be very important to starting life with a fire-in-the-belly. But what gets done with that by the individual and those that have some control over their paths early on makes a big difference. But let us not forget that to be good at engineering, for example, one has to be able to conceptualize and visualize in their minds-eye. Having grit does not make up for that. Having both is a killer for success. My observations only and yes they are not scientific.