If you’re familiar with the startup world, you’ve likely heard a lot of entrepreneurs talk about a quality called “grit.”
There are many ways to define this trait, many of which reference passion and perseverance. Author Caroline Adams Miller, for one, defines it as “the passionate pursuit of hard goals that awes and inspires you and others to become better people, flourish emotionally, take positive risks, and live your best lives.”
There are a number of components to grit, said Miller, who wrote “Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance and Purpose” (Sounds True, 2017). However, at the root of it is “ikigai,” the Japanese term for “that which I wake up for” – in other words, your purpose.
“When we have a purpose that is authentic and connected directly to what we want to pursue for its own intrinsic value, it fills us with the passion that supports us through difficult times and challenging setbacks,” Miller said. [What is entrepreneurship? Here’s how various experts define it.]
Developing authentic grit
Authentic grit, said Miller, is about having goals that actually make people want to become better because they witness the humility, patience, risk-taking, self-confidence and self-regulation that you demonstrate as you pursue those goals.
Miller suggests learning these three key abilities in order to achieve authentic grit:
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