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I would only consider the lack of grit unfair if you have passion for achieving a specific goal and you cannot achieve it due to the lack of grit. Is that possi

I would only consider the lack of grit unfair if you have passion for achieving a specific goal and you cannot achieve it due to the lack of grit. Is that possible? If you deeply want to achieve something, don't you automatically have the grit to achieve it? Lack of grit should be more a problem for people who see startups as a job where they are team-leads and they need some level of perseverance to overcome obstacles. Still, why shouldn't grit be trainable? It's just that VC make money by selecting founders with grit. In a sense, they corner the market by investing into the best. Why should they destroy their moat by flooding the market with viable founders?

solatic 4y ago
> why shouldn't grit be trainable? Grit is not trainable in the sense that one can add it to a grade school curriculum and reliably graduate people with grit. Fundamentally, grit is formed by coming up against obstacles, failing, and getting back up again and perservering. No curriculum on the planet can standardize the experience of failure - even the Kobayashi Maru was beat by Kirk.
- moron4hire 4y ago
  Kirk didn't beat the Kobayashi Maru.
  - eropple 4y ago
    "Cheating is fine because I'm the main character and I'll get away with it" is not a bad summation of "hustle culture", though.
  - solatic 4y ago
    Depends on your perspective. If you think Kobayashi Maru is about measuring your ability to function under pressure, loss, and failure, then you're correct. Kirk's unwillingness to face failure made him fail. If you think Kobayashi Maru is about how the captain is supposed to react in an unwinnable scenario, then you're wrong, and you're not just wrong, Kirk is the poster-boy for exactly the correct approach. Ultimately, there are no real rules in war - only who survives. Business is different, but not that different. The annals of history are awash with the red ink of failed companies who insisted on letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
  - ant6n 4y ago
    He kind of did beat it by sacrificing himself at the end of Star Trek vii.
- closedloop129 4y ago
  You don't need a guarantee of failure. Let the students do several challenges at their skill level and they are bound to fail at some. That's where they can learn.
  - solatic 4y ago
    > Let the students do several challenges at their skill level Define "their skill level". Particularly in large classrooms with mixed skill levels. Coming up with such challenges is more difficult than it would seem.

solatic 4y ago

> why shouldn't grit be trainable? Grit is not trainable in the sense that one can add it to a grade school curriculum and reliably graduate people with grit. Fundamentally, grit is formed by coming up against obstacles, failing, and getting back up again and perservering. No curriculum on the planet can standardize the experience of failure - even the Kobayashi Maru was beat by Kirk.

moron4hire 4y ago
Kirk didn't beat the Kobayashi Maru.
- eropple 4y ago
  "Cheating is fine because I'm the main character and I'll get away with it" is not a bad summation of "hustle culture", though.
- solatic 4y ago
  Depends on your perspective. If you think Kobayashi Maru is about measuring your ability to function under pressure, loss, and failure, then you're correct. Kirk's unwillingness to face failure made him fail. If you think Kobayashi Maru is about how the captain is supposed to react in an unwinnable scenario, then you're wrong, and you're not just wrong, Kirk is the poster-boy for exactly the correct approach. Ultimately, there are no real rules in war - only who survives. Business is different, but not that different. The annals of history are awash with the red ink of failed companies who insisted on letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- ant6n 4y ago
  He kind of did beat it by sacrificing himself at the end of Star Trek vii.
closedloop129 4y ago
You don't need a guarantee of failure. Let the students do several challenges at their skill level and they are bound to fail at some. That's where they can learn.
- solatic 4y ago
  > Let the students do several challenges at their skill level Define "their skill level". Particularly in large classrooms with mixed skill levels. Coming up with such challenges is more difficult than it would seem.