This was the first webinar on the https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/bulletin channel. the research on grit is clear that having it helps you finish hard tasks - Covey's 7 habits play into these ideas as well.

1. Grit:
and the 7 Habits of Those Who are Highly Successful…

2. Quotes from Stephen Covey
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit.
Knowledge is the theoretical
paradigm, the what to do and the
why. Skill is the how to do. And
desire is the motivation, the want
to do. In order to make something
a habit in our lives, we have to have
all three.

3. Agenda
This Discussion
• What is grit?
• Where do we start for the 7 habits?
• Effective goals
• Being proactive and staying on track?
• Begin with the end in mind
• Exercises to do
• Tools for DN and MN members
• Discussion from attendees
• What is upcoming?
Comin Up Next…
• How to plan so that your graduate work blends
easily with your life
• Principles
• Roles vs centeredness
• What we can influence
• Taking proactive to a new level
• Understanding before being understood
• Now look at your life/work/graduate work
• Exercise
• Tools to Help
• How to LOVE Your Masters or Doctoral Work in
2018
• What does it take to love something?
• Beginning with the end in mind
• Moving from individual to interdependent strength
• Dynamic or Static decisions?
• Centeredness, getting your needs met w/o trapping
yourself
• Synergy
• Sharpening the saw

4. What is grit?
What do we know from research?

5. What is grit?
• The ability to stick to it no matter what…
• But is stick to it, working harder what we want?
• Not necessarily –
• Covey would say “we don’t want to work hard climbing a ladder, only
to find it is propped against the wrong wall”
• So grit that really sticks first starts with our internal locus of control or
metacognition – knowing ourselves
• So TRUE grit is first knowing ourselves/desires/goals and then sticking
with the until we reap the benefits

6. Research into grit… 50% of us have it easier than
others
• Grit is the disposition to pursue long-term goals with sustained interest and effort over
time (Duckworth et al., 2007). The notion that sustained effort and focused interests are
distinct from talent but equally vital to success has been discussed in the psychological
literature for well over a century. In perhaps the earliest systematic inquiry into the
psychological determinants of high achievement, Galton (1892) reviewed biographical
information on prominent individuals in an array of disciplines including science, poetry,
music, art, and the law. Galton proposed that talent was insufficient for eminent
achievement. Rather, the most eminent individuals displayed ability combined with
“zeal,” and the “capacity for hard labour” (p. 38).
Eskreis-Winkler, L., Shulman, E. P., Beal, S., & Duckworth, A. L. (2014). The grit effect:
predicting retention in the military, the workplace, school and marriage. Frontiers in
Psychology, 5(36). doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2014.00036

7. Do you have zeal and the capacity for hard work?
• Five constructs – grit and elf-discipline, dutifulness, achievement striving
• Not like other facets of conscientiousness, grit denotes extreme stamina in
terms of particular interests and applied effort toward these interests. Grit
is not just about working hard on tasks at hand but, rather, working
diligently toward the same higher-order goals over extremely long
stretches of time.
• Grit correlates with finishing over all the others.

8. Hypothesis
• Do set backs discourage you?
Enough to stop?
• Hypothesis – it helps to aim
higher
• The 7 Habits of highly effective
people are like the line this
arrow runs on

9. How does Stephen Covey Fit?
What are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?

10. What are the 7 Habits? What will we be
covering?
Habits…
1. Individual effectiveness
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
2. Group Interdependence and
Effective Growth
1. Think win-win
2. Seek first to understand then be
understood
3. Synergize
3. Rinse and Repeat
1. Sharpen the saw
In our series…
• Grit
• Effective goals
• Be proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Next week
• Go deeper with principles and not
• Go deeper into roles, centeredness and influence
• Which allows us to move to thinking win-win and
understanding before being understood
• Loving your graduate work
• First things first
• Dynamic vs static decisions
• Synergy
• Sharpening the saw

11. Effective Goals
• Focus on results
• Stir your heart
• Are based on principles (more later)
• Gives you important information about how to get
where you want to go
• Unifies your efforts and energy within your sphere
of influence (more later)
• Translates into daily activities so you experience
control over your life
• You can see how they are achieved within the roles
of your life and how they fit your personal mission
(more on those later in this series)

12. Being Proactive
• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the
proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by
circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people
are driven by values – carefully thought about, selected and
internalized values.
• It is not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us
that hurts us or helps us.

13. Proactivity and Your
Circle of Influence
Self control
Circle of
Influence
Outside of
your control
• Proactive people focus their efforts in the
Circle of Influence. They work on the
things they can do something about. The
nature of their energy is positive,
enlarging and magnifying, causing their
Circle of Influence to increase.

14. First things first
• Vision then Act
• Make Your Own Map
• Build habits that take you
there, one step, one day at at
time

15. Exercises

16. Exercise One: Building
the Vision
• List 3-5 people you admire or who have
be influential or inspirational to you
• List 3-5 characteristics of those people
each
• Notice those that over lap
• If you imagine yourself with those
characteristics, how do you feel?
• Imagine and then write about your life
after you have become the person you
imagine

17. Knowledge:
What to do
Desire:
Want to
do
Skills: How
to do it
HABIT

18. • Task:
• Think of the people you described in exercise one…
• Identify the various areas of your life you want to move ahead to bring your life in concert
with the inspiration you get from those people give you– list each area across the top of a
series of columns
• Within those plan 2 or 3 of the most important results you feel you should accomplish, run
those down the column under each heading
• Are they within your circle of influence? If not, reconsider what is
• Consider how you feel when you look at that list and imagine the tasks complete? Energized?
If so, good you are on track. Are you ready to set them as a goal?
Exercise Three: Putting a direction to building
habits

19. Academic Example
• Task:
• Person you admire is a leader in your field – maybe your supervisor – qualities you admire
are their quick brain, how much they know, maybe their kindness
• You identify that you want to understand more about your field and you wish you could
respond with as much kindness as they do
• On column then is your field and the second is kindness
• Are they within your circle of influence? Yes they are, as they are both responses from you that do not require
an outsider to agree
• In order to grow what do you need more of? Knowledge? Skill? Desire?
• What do you already have the most of in this area?
• Now you have analyzed what is important to you, the area(s) that would make you strong in
building that habit and what you need more of in order to have the GRIT to do it.

20. Back to Covey
Bringing Habit 1: Being Proactive to Grit

21. Being Proactive
• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the
proactive person.
• You build a list of activities for the year that would be exciting and through which you
would learn more about your field –
• You commit to treating people well.
• It is not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that
hurts us or helps us. So you make it to the first couple of new
activities/lectures etc and you are conscious of being nicer.
• BUT… stuff happens – you miss a lecture, you snap at a friend
• Are you ready to be proactive about the goals you came up with?
• What does it take to stay on track?
• What does it take to come back to on track?

22. Covey’s Proactive Model
Stimulus Freedom to Choose
Self Awareness Imagination Conscience Independent Will
Response

23. Knowledge:
What to do
Desire:
Want to
do
Skills: How
to do it
Covey’s Proactive
Model with Grit
Stimulus Freedom to Choose
Self Awareness Imagination Conscience Independent Will
Response
Past Sucess

24. This week…
• Do the exercises, choose a few goals, plan some steps, do them, see what
happens.
Next week
• We go deeper into thinking about a plan for work-life
• Principles
• Roles vs centeredness
• What we can influence
• Taking proactive to a new level
• Understanding before being understood
• Now look at your life/work/graduate work
• Exercise
• Tools to Help

25. Tools from DN & MN Portals

26. Tools to add ease to your Masters/Doctoral habits
• Add knowledge
• Do the self assessments on your control panel – check your work against the
criteria for examination
• What Does It Take to Graduate This Year? Part One: Backward-Mapping
• Transferable skills boxed set
• Add skill
• Video: Strategic Planning for Graduate Students
• 30 day writing challenge
• Critical thinking boxed set
• Add inspiration (the desire is all yours of course)
• 365 motivational emails
• E-motivations under resources
• You-tube of the week – also under resources menu

27. What’s coming?
• Webinars
https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences
• Improve your reading
• Plan for work-life
• Conducting mixed methods
• Love this graduate year!
• Groups coming in Feb once a month – will be listed as webinars
• Prep for your final document
• Lingerers
• New Content
• Boxed sets – sign up now under resources menu
• Webinars will be privately on youtube with tabs
• Academic writing once a week tips