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• Buddha, Joan Of Arc & Even Luke Skywalker Shared This #1 Trait That Best Predicts Elite Performance

  
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  The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC), based out of the University of California, Berkeley, is unique in its commitment to both science and practice: not only does the organization sponsor groundbreaking scientific research into social and emotional well-being, they also help people apply this research to their ...
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• Angela Lee Duckworth: The Key to Success? Grit

  
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  Richard St. John was able to discover the Eight Traits of Successful People. But if you ask Angela Lee Duckworth, she will say there’s only one key to success – and that is GRIT. What is grit? And why is it so important to have it if you want to achieve your goals? Instead of [...] Note: This preview is to ...
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• If you ain’t got GRIT, you ain’t got Sh*t!

  
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  Before you start reading this post, I would like you to take 30 seconds to complete Angela Duckworth’s short GRIT scale test. Don’t worry, at this point in time, you should care if you know what the word GRIT means … the questions are very straightforward and can be addressed to a 10 year old kid. REMEMBER, ...
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• Grit: The Ultimate Key to Success?

  
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  Send to Kindle With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton Could it be that talent is overrated? We tend to take for granted that those who seem to be able to “naturally” do things so much better than the rest of us – play music, paint, play golf, ...
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• Luke Brennan Covers Grit’s Summer 2013 Issue

  
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  Smile Like You Mean It –Shooting Grit’s summer 2013 cover, photographer Niclas Heikkinen focuses his lens on model Luke Brennan ( Next ), who appears in a close-up, unveiling an exaggerated smile. Opting for a simple and essential image, where lights and shadows highlight Luke’s young angles, Heikkinen ...
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• Exhibition: 50 years of Grit and Glamour (Chris Beetles Gallery)

  
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  The Chris Beetles Photography Gallery in London turns its attention to the culture of celebrity and their public image, as captured by some of the world’s best known photographers. ALI UNDERWATER, 1961 BY ©FLIP SCHULKE / Chris Beetles Fine Photographs The exhibition runs from Tuesday May 21 – Saturday ...
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• Modern Love.Zak has Mandy’s medical conditions tattooed...

  
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  Modern Love. Zak has Mandy’s medical conditions tattooed on his arm so he can remember them all to tell the doctors when he needs to. (via Photo by claytoncubitt • Instagram )
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• MEME STREAK

  
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  THE FIRST LOSING STREAK HAS STRUCK.  WERE DOOMED. You knew it was bad last night when instead of discussing the close game going on in front of them, Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler started talking about what living in a Jetsons-style future might be like.  Ryan was excited about the possibility that hed be ...
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• Attaining Your Goals: Risk, Reward & Humility

  
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  A relatively hot topic turned up at the end of last year, found in and among commentary on national bestseller lists, with scores of subsequent articles and essays in magazines, journals and online: taking risk to achieve the happiness you crave and deserve in life and work. Suggestions abound about the necessity ...
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• First Ender’s Game Trailer Has Kids, Alien War, Ben Kingsley

  
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  The first trailer for director Gavin Hoods adaptation of Enders Game is here, complete with young alien fighters and Ben Kingsley.
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• Photo of the day – walking barefoot through misery

  
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  A girl stands in a Haitian slum without shoes, without money, but full of pride: The image won the 2008 UNICEF photo of the year competition. Belgian photographer Alice Smeets is the youngest to ever come out on top in … Continue reading →
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• Collecting The Duke, English Style: John Wayne UK Quad Movie Posters

  
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  A simple unfussy design as “Rooster Cogburn” takes centre stage in this “True Grit” Quad movie poster from the U.K. (Photo: moviepostermem.com) In this article we are going to look at one of the true greats of the 20th century cinema: John Wayne, the epitome of the all-American hero, and the posters of his ...
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• First you go to an underground bar in a shady area. Then you...

  
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  First you go to an underground bar in a shady area. Then you meet a hot girl. Then you get married and get good jobs. Then you have babies. Then you hear they’ve built luxury condos next to that bar. Then you move in and post this sign. Then you zone the bar out of existence and replace it with a Jamba Juice. And ...
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• Too busy

  
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  I am overwhelmed with tickery-tockery. Really, I should have been an automatic calendar, running by computer, then it wouldnt have mattered. Because today I co-ordinate our comings and goings with three different families from 9am to 9pm, bringing my three kids to three different points with six other children via ...
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• Cargo bike incorporating a shopping cart and chain link fence,...

  
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  Cargo bike incorporating a shopping cart and chain link fence, with a blood-red wrought-iron cowcatcher (and cup holder), New Orleans
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• EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT: Editorial & Marketing Assistant Molly OLaughlin

  
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  Welcome back to the Overlook Press Employee Spotlight Series! Looking for some insight into how the publishing process works? Youve come to the right place. Over the last year and a half weve introduced designers, contract managers, editors, sales staff, and publicists, all in the hopes of better acquainting blog ...
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• Recap: 4th Annual Gala for Good In New York City

  
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  Goods for Good’s 4th Annual Gala for Good was held on Monday, April 22nd at the IAC building. It drew over 500 attendees, raising more than $540,000 to build small businesses in Africa. The proceeds will go towards Goods for Good’s innovative new business program, Community Enterprise. Alyssa Miller (Photo ...
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• Workshops for teenagers?

  
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  It seems to me that la famille Grit is now conducting a survey of KS3 workshops around the shires. See? I even have all the lingo, what with those National Curriculum Key Stages 1,2,3 . I wouldnt have known what you meant a few years ago. But, you home educating parents, there is a disjunction from larking about in ...
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• Trailer: R.I.P.D. or Why Some Things Should Just R.I.P.

  
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  I honestly don’t know if there’s an afterlife. I’m indecisive like that. But should there be some ethereal plane beyond our own where we go after we die I know I’ll be hoping that it doesn’t look anything like this. I’ll take the madness of the afterlife that Beetlejuice  offered, having to linger on ...
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