“There has never been a test, nor will there ever be a test
developed … that can determine the amount of passion or determination someone
has.”
When I saw it reposted at the Public Speaking group on LinkedIn
I just laughed at his lack of serious research. That is because I had read a
2016 book by University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Angela Duckworth titled
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. At her web site you can find a page
on research with a 12 item grit scale (a test). The full text for magazine article from 2007
about it is here.
You can also watch her six-minute 2013 TED talk (also titled
Grit: the power of passion and perseverance). It packs a lot into the length of
a typical Toastmasters speech.
An image of a worker using a wire brush was adapted from
this one found at Wikimedia Commons.
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