My goal is to read 100 pages each week in good books. We didn’t do a whole lot today and the next two days we will be traveling home, doing a lot of sitting so I will get in a lot of reading time, and get ahead a bit on my goal that is 5,000 pages a year. Today I downloaded some books from Amazon on my IPad to read, one of them is called, “Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverence” which the author says is the true secret to success in any area of life. I finished about half of it today and it is a good read. One of the good quotes is, “people like to believe in the gifted, natural, talented, intelligent person being great because it lets them off the hook for being mediocre, but the statistical facts overwhelmingly prove that the greatest, most successful people were and are the ordinary in the world but they have grit”. Grit is defined as the combination of hard work, a never give up attitude, and a huge level of discontentment with present accomplishments. Almost any person can be a champion if they have grit and almost any person can acquire grit, but a catch is, most will need to be coached and mentored by a person who already has grit in order to acquire it for themselves, and most won’t be teachable and humble enough to be mentored and coached by someone else. So it looks like the main difference between high achievers, average, and low achievers is pride and humility.