Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Habits & Behaviour Change
A topic within Habits & Behaviour Change, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
Angela L. Duckworth, Christopher Peterson, Michael D. Matthews & Dennis R. Kelly · 2007
Argues that sustained achievement over years correlates more with perseverance toward a single long-term goal than with talent or intelligence, and…
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
Edward L. Deci & Richard M. Ryan · 2000
Argues that behaviour sustained by autonomy, competence and relatedness persists and feels better than behaviour driven by external reward or…
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Angela L. Duckworth, Christopher Peterson, Michael D. Matthews & Dennis R. Kelly
Argues that sustained achievement over years correlates more with perseverance toward a single long-term goal than with talent or intelligence, and introduces a short scale to measure it.
Edward L. Deci & Richard M. Ryan
Argues that behaviour sustained by autonomy, competence and relatedness persists and feels better than behaviour driven by external reward or punishment, so the kind of motivation behind an action matters as much as its presence.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Marcus Credé, Michael C. Tynan & Peter D. Harms
A meta-analysis of the grit literature finds grit correlates with performance little better than conscientiousness alone, and argues the construct has been marketed well ahead of the evidence for its distinctness.