A review by kitkat962
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

1.0

I told myself not to indulge in any more self-help and wallow in my misery after finishing Mark Manson's installment, but here I was, giving Grit a chance because I enjoyed her on podcast. Oh, how wrong I was. It is straight-up self-help, minus good writing and inspirations. Oh, how I the struggle to keep the pages turning, because, frankly, this almost-300-page book could be summed up in 2 buzzwords: perseverance and passion. I couldn't tell if I'm reading the first or the third chapters, because it's all the same: sprinkle of statistics, researches, and personal anecdote meshed together.

If you are still curious about grit, I recommend reading her original research papers. At least you can learn (and be critical of) some more useful statistics and design of experiments.