Grit is quiet. If you’re hearing a lot about someone’s grit, you’re probably hearing mostly noise.

Real persistence does not need an audience, because it happens on ordinary days with nothing at stake. The people doing it are usually too busy doing it to narrate it, and the story tends to appear afterwards, if at all. Loud accounts of toughness are often the substitute for the thing rather than evidence of it.

Notice who is still doing the work in week seven, not who talked about starting in week one. Then apply the same test to yourself and keep your own effort mostly undescribed. Let the record be the proof.