Angela Duckworth, the author of grit found in her research that there were four factors that enhance grit, or in our words, resilience. Purpose is the first of the four elements. We've already covered purpose in the last lesson. And often our purpose comes from our personal philosophy and personal values. What the research suggests is our purpose also needs to be more than just about us. true purpose is other driven.

Your work needs to not only matter to you, but in how it helps others to be more meaningful. Other driven purpose is a powerful source of motivation. It comes when our work products become more important than our job titles. So in our last lesson, we looked at our personal philosophy and personal values. Take a moment now to consider how your current role connects to other people. The bigger picture around you how it helps you express your deepest personal values, which you've already identified, and they'll last lesson.

Being self oriented and other oriented are not mutually exclusive. You could have both. And you could have neither the drive to become an executive can help your career and simultaneously serve the needs of others at the same time. So take a moment to revisit the personal philosophy and personal values you documented in your workbook and exercise nine, and highlight how they are other driven or add language that will make them other driven. Pause the video and do that now. Don't worry, we'll wait for you.

Welcome back. So that is our other driven purpose. So what's next? Well, secondly, we have an interest focus. We must be captivated by what we do. This is the passion we alluded to in the introduction to this course.

When you love what you do, and who you do it with your resilience is going to skyrocket. For example, I love what I do, and I love who I do it with. player is a fantastic business partner. We have fun every day. We challenge each other, we work hard, we're creative, and I'm doing something that I'm truly passionate about. And because of that, I am willing to keep trying and working harder to make sure that we're successful.

So this interest must be triggered again and again. To achieve this re triggering, you need to have an infinite amount of curiosity to deepen your level of commitment. What if always the question what if I do this? What if I try this? Thirdly, we have hope. Hope is what keeps you going.

It keeps your eyes on the long term prize and helps you push through extraordinary challenges and keep going. The language we use and talking to yourself or communicating with others also undermines or promotes hope. When you praise yourself or others avoid absolutes like you are the best, or at least you tried. Instead, recognize the effort positively. You're growing. And I love the effort you showed.

When you give feedback, always pause for reflection. Consider using words like great work, what is one thing you could have done even better. Instead of leaving it as great work, You're so awesome. When giving feedback, don't let yourself or anyone else off the hook by saying something like, maybe this isn't my thing. I can contribute in other ways. Instead, try something like, maybe I'm not there yet.

But I think by working together with my coach, we can get me to the next level. And finally, we have practice. The fourth element, developing stronger levels of resilience. Practice is the daily routine of self improvement. address your weaknesses over time, work toward mastery. Move ahead each day further than the previous one.

And don't beat yourself up. We all have bad days, that things don't go the way we planned. Just get back up the next day and try again. Many of us pretend to practice, we attend PT sessions and half listen to the speaker. We take the notes back to the office, store them on the shelf, we accept assignments or take on new jobs that really have little bearing on our long term career goal. We are attracted to doing things that capitalize on our strengths, and avoider weaknesses.

As a result, we develop more slowly and sometimes not at all, because we are not diligently practicing toward mastery, or being honest about the areas where we need to improve. So there you have it, the four factors that help build grit, purpose, interest, hope, and practice. Consider how you are managing your career. Do you have these four elements in place? In our next lesson, we're going to learn more ideas on how to perform deliberate practice, as this is the key to achieving those long term big hairy, audacious goals that you've set for yourself. See you that