Resilience
- “what is resilience”
- “can you build resilience”
- “is resilience a trait”
- “why does resilience feel like blame”
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ResiliencevsGrit
The short answer
Grit is about persisting toward a goal; resilience is about what happens after a hit. Both have a construct problem, but not the same one: resilience is often defined by the very outcome it is meant to predict, while grit turns out to be very strongly correlated with ordinary conscientiousness.
Side by side
| Aspect | Resilience | Grit |
|---|---|---|
| Concerns | After adversity | Toward a goal |
| Timescale | Event-anchored | Years |
| Agreed definition | No | Contested |
| Risk | Reads as blame | Reads as virtue |
Which one you meant
Readers who land here meaning Resilience rather than Grit are usually searching for phrases like “what is resilience”, “can you build resilience”, “is resilience a trait”.
Grit
- “is grit real”
- “does grit predict success”
- “grit vs conscientiousness”
- “angela duckworth grit criticism”
Which came first
Resilience. 1620s — First English attestation, meaning 'act of rebounding or springing back'.
- 1620sResilienceFirst English attestation, meaning 'act of rebounding or springing back'.
- 2007GritAngela Duckworth, with Christopher Peterson, Michael Matthews and Dennis Kelly, publish the construct and the Grit Scale in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Read either one in full