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by cylinder 3637 days ago
Can I hijack and ask, how do I become a "determined" person with grit? Is it learnable? If something becomes too hard, I just convince myself the success is not worth it or not attainable.

I might actually be right. Success might not be worth it. It seems winners are usually more motivated by hatred and fear of losing / failure than the joy of winning. You see this with sports stars all the time (MJ).
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alextheparrot 3637 days ago
Have you listened to the Freakonomics podcast [1] on this exact question? It was an interesting exploration of "How to get more grit". If I remember correctly, many of the episodes around that time period (May of this year) were about getting good at things/self-improvement [2].

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/

[2] http://freakonomics.com/archive/ (Around episode 245)

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Scarblac 3636 days ago
It's your life, and you define what success means for you.

How can it possibly be "not worth it"? Do you really just want to go through the motions until you die, without caring about achieving even the tiniest thing in the time you have?

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