Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit means a firm desire to fight. Everyone needs intense grit to achieve what they want. Having sincere grit requires a specific plan for long-term goals. However, grit's insensitivity should not change even though people change their final achievements through their careers when they learn what they want. Grit has four characteristics: courage, long-term goals and endurance, resilience, and perfection. 

Courage helps fuel grit; the two are symbiotic, feeding into and off of each other…and you need to manage each and how they are functioning together. As a side note, some educators believe that the current trend of coddling our youth, by removing the competition in sports, for example, is preventing some kids from learning how to fail and embracing it as an inevitable part of life. Coddling and cultivating courage may indeed turn out to be irreconcilable bedfellows. 

Both have to do with perseverance, but the latter exists in the arena of extraordinary success and therefore requires a long-term time commitment. Well, since we are Forbes readers and destined for the pantheon of extraordinary success, it is important to concede that for you…long-term goals play an important role. "… achievement is the product of talent and effort, the latter a function of the intensity, direction, and duration of one's exertions towards a long-term goal." Still, the area where Gladwell and Duckworth intersect (and what we can control) is the importance of goals and lots, and lots and lots of practice…10,000 hours to be precise. 

Zolli's book, Resilience, Why Things Bounce Back, defines resilience as "the ability of people, communities, and systems to maintain their core purpose and integrity among unforeseen shocks and surprises." For Zolli, resilience is a dynamic combination of optimism, creativity, and confidence, which empower one to reappraise situations and regulate emotion-a behavior many social scientists call "hardiness" or "grit." 

In general, gritty people do not seek perfection but instead strive for excellence. It may seem that these two have only subtle semantic distinctions, but they are at odds. Perfection is excellence's somewhat pernicious cousin. However, perfection generally is someone else's perception of an ideal, and pursuing it is like chasing a hallucination.
It allows for disappointment and prioritizes progress over perfection. Like excellence, grit is an attitude about, to paraphrase, Tennyson…seeking, striving, finding, and never yielding.

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