Happiness Book Club
Have you ever stuck at something longer than you should have? Or perhaps you pursued one goal to the exclusion of everything else, or put all your energy into contributing to others’ goals, which left you little time to identify and work towards those that were important to you? These are issues that goal expert Caroline Miller explores and helps us resolve in her book. Her focus is on what she calls ‘authentic grit’, which is about finding the right long-term goals for us based on our strengths and passions, and pursuing them in the right way.
Working towards important goals over time is hard and can be scary. That’s why we require grit; but it needs to be the right sort, at the right time. Miller warns that we need to be aware when grit is bad; when it’s stubborn or stupid, such as when we have invested lots of time and e€ort into achieving something, so we cling on to it, even when that goal is no longer serving us.