{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/","name":"Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance","shortTitle":"Grit","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Angela Duckworth"},"isbn":"9781501111105","numberOfPages":10,"wordCount":4282,"timeRequired":"PT17M","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","publisher":{"@id":"https://readstacks.com/#organization","@type":"Organization","name":"Read Stacks"},"workExample":[{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-1-showing-up/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-1-showing-up/","name":"Showing Up","position":1,"wordCount":410,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Duckworth opens with the observation that brought her to the research: as a McKinsey consultant who became a public-school math teacher, she noticed that her smartest students were not always her best students. Some kids with modest natural ability outperformed clearly-talented peers — not occasionally, but consistently, over years.","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-2-distracted-by-talent/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-2-distracted-by-talent/","name":"Distracted by Talent","position":2,"wordCount":414,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"The chapter is a quiet indictment of the cultural fixation on natural ability. Duckworth documents how schools, sports, business, and the media all reflexively look for talent first, and then treat effort as the lesser variable — a kind of compensation for not having been born with the gift.","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-3-effort-counts-twice/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-3-effort-counts-twice/","name":"Effort Counts Twice","position":3,"wordCount":422,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Duckworth introduces her formula, which is the conceptual core of the book: skill equals talent times effort, and achievement equals skill times effort. Effort therefore appears twice in the chain that produces real-world outcomes. 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The score is a snapshot, not a sentence — but it is a reliable predictor across populations: West Point cadets, spelling-bee finalists, sales workers,…","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-5-grit-grows/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-5-grit-grows/","name":"Grit Grows","position":5,"wordCount":428,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"The central reassurance of the book, given its own chapter: grit is not innate. It is shaped by environment, modeled by mentors, reinforced by feedback, and ultimately chosen. 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Duckworth's research finds that gritty people, in addition to caring about the work itself, articulate a connection between the work and a benefit to people beyond themselves.","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-9-hope/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-9-hope/","name":"Hope","position":9,"wordCount":448,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"Hope, in Duckworth's usage, is not optimism that things will work out. It is the belief that your own actions matter — that effort produces results, that setbacks are temporary, that the path forward is figureable.","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-10-the-gritty-culture/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance-angela-duckworth/chapter-10-the-gritty-culture/","name":"The Gritty Culture","position":10,"wordCount":428,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"The closing chapter widens the frame from the individual to the team, the family, and the organization. Duckworth's argument is that grit is not just a personal trait but a cultural one. Some teams, families, and organizations produce gritty people by design; others extinguish whatever grit their members arrived with.","datePublished":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-16T13:10:00Z"}]}