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In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called grit.
This book has to be one of the worst psychology books I’ve read so far. Because this book starts as a psychology book but then it turns into a biography of the authors career life and what she has done during school and during work. By doing it this book turned from being a psychology book to being a mix between self help and biography book.
This book was hard to stick to and pay attention because this book was all over the place with its stories. Which really disappointed me.
The chapters here felt like the same over and over again. Because the author kept repeating more or less the same things in every chapter but just in other words and other stories which led to the same conclusions.
The language used in this book was easy to understand, and because of this it made me give this book some extra point. Because there were some psychology books I came across where it seemed that you needed a bachelor degree in psychology to understand it. Which didn’t happen with this book which is probably the best thing about this book in my opinion.
The writing style here wasn’t the greatest. You could tell that the it was written by a researcher, but it was on the worse side of things when it comes to the writing style. The writing style felt very monotone, like the author didn’t care about getting your attention and make you interested in what you read.
There were some rare examples of grit which were very good in my opinion. But the 90% of the rest examples of grit was very uninteresting and boring to say it simply and in a nice way.
In my opinion this whole book could have been taken 20 pages with things sticking to the main topic of this book. The 277 pages we get in this book are too much because we get a lot of sub stories which aren’t really relevant for the topic other than having some words relating to the topic.
I Give This Book 2 / 5