Grit by Angela Duckworth
Published 2016 · 1 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Education & Reference, Nonfiction, Psychology
How hard is Grit to read?
Grit scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Accessible vocabulary. Very readable.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Psychological concept grounded in stories and research.
- Information density: 38 out of 100
- Research balanced with personal anecdotes.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Direct, thesis-driven structure.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- Grit as organizing concept. Minimal symbolism.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Earnest and motivational.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear prescription: develop grit.
- Structural complexity: 15 out of 100
- Three parts: what grit is, growing grit, and the context of grit.
How Grit is regarded
Grit holds a literary regard score of 37 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.