Bully the Bear has a great article on finding meaning in suffering. I'd thought I would build on this idea by critically examining its ancestral concept of Grit because grit has become the buzzword of the day. Grit is the ability to take punishment and roll with the punches. People with grit find ways to persist through hardship and self-help literature claimed that gritty people become more successful in life. Because of very persuasive speakers like Angela Duckworth, grit is slowly creeping into the public narrative and it is certainly expected that the best bloggers do talk about grit or its derivative concepts every now and then. I want to propose that instead of looking at Grit as one true trait of worldly success and financial well-being, it may be more instructive to view grit as a framework of similar ideas in the past on the qualities which leads to ......