Sunday's Vitamin; What are the 2 most important traits for success?

As we have said in last week's vitamin, to make a long term significant success in life, we need a group of traits (personality characteristics), that guide our thinking & actions in every day’s situations.

According to the online survey you have filled last week, the most important success traits, according to your opinions, were as follows:

Of course, all of the above traits are important; however, according to a wide research conducted recently by the University of Pennsylvania, two personality traits appeared to strongly predict success in life (باذن الله): persistence & self-control.

Persistence (they called it GRIT = العزم، الهمة، الاصرار) is the tendency to sustain interest & effort toward very long-term goals.

Self-control is the voluntary regulation of one's actions against temporary pleasure or temptations (مقاومة الاغراءات المؤقتة).

The research said that grit & self-control, are more important than other measures of talent & intelligence, in achieving many desirable outcomes in life as academic success, good social relations, better health, higher earnings, lifetime savings & satisfaction with life in general.

How to build Grit?

One good way is to set clear long term goals, to know that failure & frustration are not the end of the road, and to believe that mistakes are very natural as long as you are learning & facing new challenges.

How to build Self-Control?

One simple strategy is to know & focus on your priorities that help you approach your objectives, and to avoid losing those priorities for the sake of lower value activities.

For the complete research, you can follow this link:

https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/duckworth/pages/research-statement