The most successful people I have studied had a clear top-level goal and a hierarchy of mid- and low-level goals that all served the top one. The grit was structural, not heroic.
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Mental Toughness
Mental toughness is not grit. It is not Stoicism. It is not Sisu. It overlaps with all three and is the same as none of them. The modern doctrine — codified by David Goggins, Jocko Willink, Mark Divine, and the SEAL selection programs they came out of — is built on a small set of…
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