Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.