A couple of observations. While I am now a very gritty person, looking back over my life I was not always so in practice, although the potential was there. The

A couple of observations. While I am now a very gritty person, looking back over my life I was not always so in practice, although the potential was there. The inflection point was an idea whose import completely enslaved me. I have no more choice to work on it than I have over whether or not to feed my children. So sometimes at least it can be about surrender of ego. The presence (absence) of other gritty people around me has been of no significance whatsoever.