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<p>As trainers and coaches ‘selling’ your services, whether as a sole trader or employed professional, I would bet highly that you are aiming to ACHIEVE something, right? Success measured by income, reduced hours or even simply job satisfaction for example…<br></p>
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<p>This could also cross into your personal life in terms of wanting to ACHIEVE something like maybe enter a fitness competition or travel to a certain country...<br></p>
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<p>...and we ALL know our CLIENTS want to achieve SOMETHING! </p>
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<p>This is precisely our job!<br></p>
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<p>So what’s the difference between grit and talent?</p>
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<p>How might this influence what we do or how we approach it?</p>
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<p>Do we have an unconscious bias towards talent over actual achievement? </p>
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<p>Why would we do that?<br></p>
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<p><strong>The Problem</strong><br></p>
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<p>Well the problem is when we are glued to talent shows on TV or recognised for ‘talent’ at school. Also having a talent for a sport or skill doesn't necessarily mean we, or our client, will achieve at it. For your client to succeed they need persistence!</p>
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<p>Let’s dive a little deeper into the difference between them.<br></p>
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<p><strong>Definitions</strong> <br></p>
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<p><em>Talent - Skill, ability, natural aptitude</em><br></p>
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<p><em>Grit - Persistence, effort, courage, resolve strength of character </em><br></p>
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<p><strong>So What? </strong><br></p>
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<p>We all remember the kids at school who winning a race came easy to and those who were always last. I mean who got rewarded for being last?</p>
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<p>But what about the kids who kept on trying no matter what?</p>
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<p>What about when they continued trying into their teens and 20’s and maybe even adulthood?</p>
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<p>Which one were / are you?</p>
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<p>Which one is your client?<br></p>
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<p>Is it that talent gives a perception or an excuse for the rest of us to feel that well we don’t need to try because, well we will never be that ‘good’? </p>
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<p>How many kids gave up or how many adults give up before finding out if they could actually, with a big dose of grit achieve what they set out to do?</p>
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<p>Ever thought..</p>
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<p><em>“Oh that's not me I'm therefore not going to exert the same kind of effort into what I do”</em><br></p>
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<p>We should recognise that we can learn skills, we can also learn &nbsp;persistence of course we can but is that not a more innate part of a character rather than a talent?<br></p>
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<p>So are you talented? Do you have a talent? Or do you have grit? </p>
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<p>Or maybe you have both?<br></p>
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<p><strong>The Grit Scale Test</strong><br></p>
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<p>Having read Angela Duckworth’s book Grit: <em>The Power Of Passion and Perseverance, </em>it had so much of what was at the heart of Ken Robinson’s theory on <em>Finding Your Element</em>. <br></p>
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<p>You can you can learn a skill but can you learn grit or passion?<br></p>
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<p>Here is Duckworth’s Grit Scale so that you can see where you are right now. But if you read her book you will see how this scale can indicate way more than simply grit.<br></p>
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<p><strong>To Conclude</strong><br></p>
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<p>Demonstrating persistence has been shown through research to be far more likely to equal achievement and it has been demonstrated time &amp; time again.<br></p>
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<p>IN FACT it might be argued that having natural talent at a young age could be detrimental to your grit scale or persistence, if gaining positive reinforcement about talent alone comes easily. &nbsp;</p>
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<p>Those with natural talent may exert less effort due to the ease of their skill. However those determined to put in more effort due to a lack of skill ....well could they end up more feeling /being more successful? <br></p>
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<p>Let’s consider the reasons our clients come to us. Often this is because they have been unable to persist with things themselves. The better we understand this and the reasons why, the more opportunities we have to help them make changes. <br></p>
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<p>Persistence and Consistency = Achievement and Success - No Talent Required!<br></p>
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<p>Duckworth opinion is to go from talent to achievement this is what is required:<br></p>
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<p><em>Talent x Effort = Skill </em></p>
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<p><em>Skill x Effort = Achievement </em><br></p>
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<p><em>Talent matters but effort is required twice within this equation! </em></p>
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