You Be Gritty Too is for learners committed to a long goal: a degree that takes years, a qualification earned part-time, an instrument, a language, a sport, or a hard year you have decided to see through.
It draws on research on grit, the combination of passion and perseverance for long-term goals. It helps you keep your effort and your interest alive over time, day in and day out, so that the goal you chose at the start still has your heart and your hands near the end.
Inside are two PDFs, both with your name on every page: a printable deck of A4 cards and a matching ebook. The cards follow the two parts of grit. Passion for Long-Term Goals includes cards such as Enthusiastic, Motivated, Purposeful, Desire and Set Goals. Perseverance of Effort includes Committed, Determined, Disciplined, Will-Power, Overcome Obstacles and Persevere. Each card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a set of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room for your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book, to read on a tablet or phone or to print and bind.
I suggest you begin with the passion cards, Purposeful and Set Goals among them, so that your effort has a clear goal to serve. Draw one card in the morning, choose a quote to carry through the day's study and come back to it when the work gets heavy. When a setback comes, print the Overcome cards.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life