By Piedmont Healthcare Staff
To make it through your cancer journey, you need grit and grace, says Angela Buttimer, MS, NCC, RYT, LPC, a licensed psychotherapist at Cancer Wellness.
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When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.
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Grit is very good to call upon in problematic situations like becoming paralyzed.
In the end, I fall back on one statement that I repeat to myself pretty often. “We are not given the burdens we deserve, we are given the burdens we can bear.”
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Research says talent will get you so far, but it's the gritty athletes who rise to the top.
It may be obvious that effort and stamina are required to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. But how easy is it to forget this fact in moments when we feel tortoise-like relative to our seemingly hare-like peers?
Grit, resilience, and growth mindset are intertwined. Some believe these traits are innate, but others . . . believe they can be developed.
So, why are millennials at the bottom of the heap in grit?
Interview with Professor Angela Duckworth
A study of Ivy League undergraduates showed that the smarter the students were, as measured by SAT scores, the less they persevered.