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Grit - defined as our perseverance and passion for long-term goals - is now recognized as one of the key determinants of success and life satisfaction. So, how do we build this essential quality? "First we have to understand what authentic grit is," writes Caroline Adams Miller. "It's easy to mistake grit for stubbornness or self-aggrandizement. And it's not always clear how to promote resilience and toughness in a way that builds us up instead of tearing us down." With Getting Grit, this leading author provides a practical guide for anyone seeking to develop this powerful trait for themselves and those around them.In this cogent and accessible book, Caroline illuminates the nature of authentic grit through examples and research - then offers self-assessment tools, daily exercises, and life tips to help us reinforce our capacity for courage and willpower Join her as she explores the key traits of gritty people; how true grit inspires others; the three kinds of false grit; the role of humility, self-compassion, and spirituality in cultivating grit; and much more.
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Caroline is one of the world's leading positive psychology experts on Goals & Grit™. Caroline is passionate about helping people get more grit, achieve their goals and find happiness! She's spent more than 30 years helping individuals, leaders and companies to cultivate grit, one of the top indicators of success!Caroline is the author of six books including Getting Grit (Sounds True 2017) , Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009) , Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013) , and My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988) . Live Happy Magazine named Creating Your Best Life one of the top 10 goal setting books ever published and Getting Grit one of the 10 books that would change your life in 2017. Caroline's work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and other media around the world including BBC World News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, NPR, and CNN. Angela Duckworth, winner of the 2013 MacArthur Genius grant for her research on grit, said of Caroline: "I don't know anybody who has thought more than [Caroline] about how to apply the scientific research on grit and achievement to our own lives!"Caroline's TEDx Talk "The Moments That Make Champions" explores the three things that we can choose to do differently to improve our chances of developing grit.Caroline has worked with clients around the world, including: Morgan Stanley, lululemon, The Wharton School/UPENN, RE/MAX, Booz Allen, Young Presidents' Organization, Harvard Law School, and Swisse Wellness. Caroline has a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She is a top-ranked Masters Swimmer in multiple events, has a black belt in Hapkido and has more than three decades of unbroken recovery from bulimia.
