Grit can be blinding, and you only get visibility on the upside of quitting post-hoc, having incurred the costs of gritting through. An interesting question, I think:https://twitter.com/AnnieDuke/status/1112089465835540480 …
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If you want a tragic example of high risk grittiness, just look up the statistics of suicide in autistics: there is a correlation between grit — determined, smart people who mask in order to get on in life — and risk of death.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069847/#!po=0.500000 …
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linked article is worth a read re: 'sick systems'https://twitter.com/SarahAMcManus/status/1112325150815473664 …
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Shower thought: following McLeod's triad — to do something you need know-how, willingness, capacity — gritting through is mostly willingness, whereas quitting appropriately is a 'dark art': a skill hard to pick up because many situations optimise for 'light arts' eg: drivenness.
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