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GEN 150: Group Project-Happiness Toolkit GRIT

Hamda Al Mehairi        Hoor Al Marri       Salama Al Marri

Can 'grit' be developed? | Training Journal

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Grit and sense of coherence as predictors of well-being C onducted by  Arya, Bhavana ;  Lal, Divya Sarah .

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Numerous people accept that one can accomplish their objectives through insight, gifts, difficult work and abilities. However, lately, much center has been given, directly from the advanced education level, to make openings and find different techniques that create scholarly capacities of the understudies for them to perform better educationally.(Bhavana Arya,2018) Grit is defined as “trait level perseverance and passion for long term goals”. Gritty competitors mostly used their passion and years on a National Spelling Bee Competition. These goals will help them strive on having a good wellbeing.(Duckworth, Kirby,  Tsukayama ,  Berstein , & Ericsson, 2011).The founder of the term 'Sense of Coherence' is Aron  Antonovsky  who explains the central point on a person's resource to solve a problem while improving health and not focusing on the negative side effects. He mentions the three main points of ‘SOC’ which are comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness. Ed Diener suggests that subjective well-being measures personal satisfaction and is the enthusiastic and psychological assessments of life's bliss, harmony, satisfaction, and life fulfillment. Students still grow through a competitive environment which might affect their mental health, that’s why the study focuses on factors like grit, sense of coherence and well-being between students so that they can attend college while having a positive experience.

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-Bhavana  Arya:Dr . Bhavana Arya is Associate Professor in Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur.  - Divya  Sarah Lal:  Ph.D  in Psychology, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, at St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad

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When was the research conducted?  March 2018 Who were the participants?  College students  What was the experiment? A national spelling bee competition  What were the results of the experiment? More hours and enthusiasm for success were used by gritty rivals, Gritty people for long periods of time carry on extremely engaging and emotionally meaningful goals and have strong psychological well-being.  What existing theories, if any, support the outcome of the experiment? Ed Diener claims that grit can be developed by imitating the traits of happy individuals, like being organized, socializing, developing a positive outlook and having a healthy personality. It focuses on pleasant emotional experiences that individuals experience most of the time (Fordyce,1977-1983).

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“When we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time”

Assia discovered through her life that things don't always end up the way you expect them to. She had to work them even in some cases more than others as she's dyslexic but that didn’t stop her from achieving what she did today. Her grit and perseverance took her a long way

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F or our interview we decided to question a local entrepuernur.  S louchyz  an Emarati clothing brand    bridges a gap between everyday looks and high-end modest fashion. Her desire to empower all women to feel beautiful, classy, and elegant shows in her flair of combining style, unique cuts and everlasting fashion whilst maintaining the local culture.

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How does this relate to our topic grit? M aryam Al Selaich perusred her dreams of being  he r own boss by launching a contemporary clothing brand based of of her hobby which was the start of her adventure.  D ue to her perseverenace and grit many opp o rtunity and doors  opened  to her.  A rticles in well known magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar were written, collaborated with Alnaseem hotel for a project.  A s well as presenting a line at  PFW” paris fashion week in 2019 ib collaboration with a Brazilian high-End jewelery Brand.

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We chose the practice “Talk with Teens about Purpose”  We feel like this practice  relates to our topic focuses on teens and that's the beginning of one's journey. from it we can see the GRIT in a person from such an early stage. https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/talk_with_teens_about_purpose

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O ur topic requires us to talk to children about our own life experinaces that we have encountred, in hopes of helping them with their own goals and setting grit and persevernce in their persoanilty from a young and early age.

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Hamda , Hoor and I asked three of our relatives to answer the questions provided in the practice.

The questions-  What’s most important to you in your life?  Why do you care about those things?  Do you have any long-term goals? Why are these goals important to you?  What does it mean to have a good life and be a good person?  If you were looking back on your life, how would you want to be remembered? in total we have 10 replies

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Thinking positively about your future goals and success.

Focusing on what you want to achieve because the more effort you put the happier and more satisfied you feel

It will affect your relationships in a positive way and will make you appreciate those who are around  you .

It will make you feel that you have value and appreciation in life .

In a way , people who did this practice tried their very best to improve anything that needs improvement and accomplish what is lacking

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For our group activity that has been  conducted, we asked children what they wish to be in the future.  The following clip is evidence of our work.  (10 children)

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What did you learn from conducting your experiment?  We learned that it takes a lot of courage and positive energy to start noticing and acknowledging your goals and achieving them. What happened with your thoughts/emotions/behavior while completing your experiment?  We started to think better and focus more on what we lack in order to improve our awareness while we accomplish goals. As well as learning from the children’s perspective while answering our questions about their goals.

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What happened with your thoughts/emotions/behavior after your experiment?  Our thoughts have changed after the experiment, as it made us realize nothing is impossible, and by being consistent and challenging ourselves we’ll be able to accomplish our goals, which has led to a change in our behavior as well, we won't give up and will always work to achieve the best. we feel like it has changed our mindset in a very good way. Did anyone in your community notice a change? Briefly explain. Some of us have noticed a change in each others’ character and the way we speak. Also ,some of our siblings have noticed this positive change in our daily routine.

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Will you continue this practice into the future? Briefly explain why or why not.  We will , because it will give us hope and strength in terms of a healthy lifestyle. Do you recommend this practice to be included in the personal toolkit of your peers in class? Briefly explain. Yes , Because the personal toolkit will help that person in every way possible , like , writing down their goals , expressing one's feelings when they feel down and lastly this will help their mental health. ( put the picture of the toolkit here)

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Will you teach this practice to others in your community? Briefly explain. Yes , Because this practice will improve and achieve many goals for the future generations to come as well as helping to build on the country's achievements for the youth.

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T hank you for listening to our presntation !

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