From the course: Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace
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Why grit and deliberate practice may not help
From the course: Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace
Why grit and deliberate practice may not help
- For many people, grit and deliberate practice are the foundations of hard work and high performance, but recent research suggests that this may not be the case at all. Let's discuss why grit and deliberate practice are less helpful than we might imagine they are for enhancing work performance, how the brain factors in and what you can do to optimize both. Grit refers to two factors, perseverance and consistency, how much people persevere on tasks and how consistently they apply themselves to those tasks. For instance, if your sales numbers are below your target, having grit means that you won't give up, and you will keep doing the same thing. Even though perseverance and consistency sound like good things, they will only minimally impact your sales numbers. Brain studies provide a clue as to why this is the case. People who have grit have brains that are wired for perseverance and consistency, but for the brain's perseverance and consistency switches to be turned on, so to speak…
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