Grit

 Angela Lee Duckworth began researching the reason that some people quit while others continue and persevere. She discovered the thing that made them different was grit. Grit is  a trait shared by people with tenacity and enthusiasm in facing challenges and hurdles standing between them and their goals."Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for a month, but for years, and working really hard to make that dream a reality". Grit is a very important trait that people overlook most of the time. To be successful at something you have to be willing to work hard for a long time with no guarantee because "Grit is living life like a marathon not like a sprint".  I agree that grit is very important due to the fact that anyone can be smart but very few people actually put in the work and that's what differentiates an average person from a great one. To have grit a mixture of passion and resilience to work hard is needed, some people have one or the other but having both is the perfect combination. Angela even saw this with her students, her best students weren't always the smartest ones or the ones with the highest IQ they were the ones who had grit. 

A situation in which I had grit is when I dislocated my shoulder, the first time it happened was 3 years ago. When I dislocated my shoulder the first time it was very painful and I was afraid of doing anything that involved using my shoulder. But I went to physical therapy and healed my shoulder, and it stayed like that for a long time until it happened again a mere 10 months after. I wanted to give up and not do anything but I didn't I went to physical therapy again to restrengthen my shoulder. Due to my resilience and grit I was able to heal from my injury.