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Grit Gavin Carvalho

Overview  Three key traits of Grit  Grit Scale  How do young players improve their Grit now?  Calculate your Grit score  Story about Grit – Laney Smith  What is Grit?  How can parents foster Grit in  Why is it important? their children?  Story about Grit –  Resources for players Manchester United vs PSG  Resources

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Calculate your grit score • Step 1: Add up your total score from the previous page • Step 2: Divide score by 10. • Step 3: Score will fall between 1-4 Not Gri ritty Moderately Gri ritty 1 4 2 3 Sli lightly Very Grit ritty Gri ritty - Angela Duckworth – Gri rit: : Power of f passion and pers rseverance

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Why is Grit important? Dri river r of f achievement and success 01 Wit ithout Gri rit, 05 02 Talent is is nothing Skill ill x Effort = but unmet potential Achie ievement 03 The abili ility ty to to re recover 04 from setb fr tbacks Tale lent x Effort = Skill ill

Stories about Grit – When Grit beats Talent • In last year’s Champions league, Manchester United drew Paris St. Germain in the last 16. Paris, a far more talented team featuring Neymar and Mbappe took a 2-0 lead in the first leg of the tie, creating a near impossible challenge for United to go away to Paris and have to score atleast 3 goals to qualify for the quarters. See the highlights: • First Leg Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_za6Khtnbg • Solksjaer interview before second leg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhpXxfNZoTo • Second Leg Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnu4LP1Z1mg

 High ability  Incredible zeal Three key traits of Grit  Capacity for hard labor

Maintain Hope Set Mic icro Goals Set achievable daily and Look at situations and weekly goals. These are events from an optimistic going to be crucial wins perspective, look for the that will spur players positive aspects of the onto bigger challenges. event and make it a positive for you. Dis iscover and ENGAGE Pra ractice develop in interests Regularly How do IN IN Take time to research Development takes time,  c new activities and young players practice your interests hobbies to try, find new regularly and put the activities and pursure effort in. This resilience them. Give interests time improve their will carry over into other to develop. THE aspects of your life. Develop purp rpose Grit now? PROCESS Be Dis isciplined Make mini-decisions and Follow through on all take mini-steps towards a your mini-goals and takss larger goal. This will give that you have setup, this you direction and will help you continue to purpose while fostering improve. commitment

Story about Grit – Laney Smith Link to video https://youtu.be/1XtQV8KHIg0

How can parents foster Grit in their children? BE OK WIT ITH MIS ISTAKES AND OPPORTUNITY TO IMPERFECTION IM CHOOSE Harsh criticism can stifle new interests. Instead, allow kids to make mistakes and be Give your child the opportunity to pick imperfect. Mistakes will allow them to learn their activities, tasks from 2 to 3 options, better and imperfections are normal with this will foster interest and passion. development. It will foster passion and the want to improve. ENCOURAGE CREATE QUITE TIME EXPERIMENTATION Have a small portion of the day that is free Encourage kids to try something new, this from all screens, phones and tablets. Allow will allow them to do research and find time to dream, be creative and be new interests and hobbies. For example, imaginative. . during this period, encourage them to do something they have never done before.

Resources for Pla layers  The Grit Guide for Teens  A Workbook to Help You Build Perseverance, Self-Control, and a Growth Mindset  Care ren Baruch-Feld ldman

Resources • Duckworth, A. (n.d.). Grit: The power of passion and perseverance . • Baruch-Feldman, C. (2017, October 3). What if Grit, and why is it important? . Retrieved April 22, 2020, from https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/what-grit-and-why-it- important