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How Much Grit Do You Actually Have?

Passion and perseverance for long goals. Most people are strong on one and weak on the other.

15 questions ยท about 6 minutes

15 items across three components of long-term perseverance, with reverse-scored items. Original wording inspired by grit research, educational use only.

1. I finish whatever I begin.

2. Setbacks make me work harder rather than less.

3. I have kept working on something for years.

4. I am diligent about things that take a long time to pay off.

5. I give up when something turns out to be harder than expected.

6. My interests stay the same from year to year.

7. New ideas and projects pull me away from what I was doing.

8. I become obsessed with something for a while, then lose interest.

9. I have a goal I have been working towards for more than two years.

10. I change direction whenever something more interesting appears.

11. A failure takes me a long time to get over.

12. I can start again after something falls apart.

13. Being told no makes me try a different route rather than stop.

14. I lose confidence in the whole plan after one bad result.

15. I have come back from something that genuinely did not work.

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