Episode 029- Book Club: Grit by Angela Duckworth - Part 3: Growing Grit from the Outside In.

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In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast:

Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore and our guest Josh Gordon (President of Full Spectrum Marketing https://www.fsm.agency/ ) discuss part 3 of the book Grit by Angela Duckworth (https://angeladuckworth.com/ ). Growing grit from the outside in.

0:00 Intro
1:35 Big take-aways from this section of the book…
6:26 Somebody has to have a robust vision… Unity…
9:16 Fighting against discord
11:28 Imitate leads to emulate…
12:47 Soft culture (culture of convenience)
15:41 Chapter 10 on Parenting, authoritarian vs authoritative (wise parenting) - See page 212 in the book.
17:27 Teasing out the definition of a parent, derives from a Latin term “to bring forth”
20:40 The parenting assessment on page 214…
33:08 Do you have a vision for your family? Surviving or flourishing
37:04 “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
37:59 Parenting in a gritty way: doing the hard stuff when you don’t feel like it…
40:43 The hard thing rule in chapter 11, has 3 parts (page 241)
The first part of the hard thing rule: everyone has to do 1 thing that is hard, that requires daily deliberate practice.
43:14 Second part, is that you can quit. But only at a natural stopping point.
43:32 Third part, you get to pick your hard thing, nobody else picks it for you.
49:30 Don’t underestimate the value of discernment
50:30 Character is a plurality of things…
50:49 Grit and OCD can look similar…
51:24 The goal setting chapter…
51:40 Virtue clusters: will, heart, and mind
52:48 Character is a bit of a loaded word…
53:09 Character comes down to 3 things: Integrity (doing the right thing when no one is looking), the ability to create clarity, moral authority
54:16 Any things you’ll change in your life after reading this book?
2 Things: Relationship between poverty and opportunity and the word Sisu
56:50 The word Sisu (from Finland)
“It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win.” - Quote in the book (Page 251) from a feature on Sisu in Time magazine, 1940
1:03:23 There are no painless pathways…
1:04:25 Teddy Roosevelt quote (Page 254)
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt

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