Grit + Tenacity + Proactivism

Evaristo Morales-Pita PhD Antonio

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The purpose of this book is to testify how the combination of grit plus tenacity plus being proactive has allowed the author of this book to be successful in fighting against procrastination in the battlegrounds of primary school, learning English in Cuba in two years, going through secondary education, high school, bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees, in Cuban, Scottish, Ukrainian universities and academy of sciences, being a professor in Cuban, Mexican, and American universities, mastering four foreign languages, escaping from communism in Cuba, working as a translator from English and Russian to Spanish, being married, living in different homes during three years, prioritizing fatherhood while being engulfed in conflicts between a revengeful first wife and an extraordinary second wife, being a merry widower while loving his special late wife, to systematically maintaining cardiovascular fitness exercising his entire body for at least three decades after turning 59 and having a heart attack, being able to reduce fifty pounds of weight (slowly in small but systematic decreases) over twenty three years, enjoying travelling around the world with his wife or alone for more than six decades with a reasonable level of expenditures. What is one of the author's important ways to achieve a proactive lifestyle and consequently defeating procrastination? How does he stand up after a fall or even the menace or threat of achieving goals, as well as believing in himself? Read to find out.

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• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Date de parution: 30 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781638297376
• Langue: English

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G rit + T enacity + P roactivism
Pulling the Bull by the Horns
Antonio Evaristo Morales- Pita, PhD
Austin Macauley Publishers
2022-11-30
Grit + Tenacity + Proactivism About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgment Preliminary Remarks A Proposal of Key to Success Introduction List of Authors Whose Books Can Relate to Procrastination Chapter I: Siria Pita’s Main Traits and Talents Chapter II: The Author’s Main Talents Inherited from His Mother and Learned from His Second Wife Chapter III: Author’s Proactive Attitude During Childhood and Early Youth Chapter IV: Author’s Strong Battle Against Procrastination During Graduate Studies and Scientific Undertakings Chapter V: Author’s Most Important Political Decisions Chapter VI: Can Procrastination or Activation Be Related to Defection? Chapter VII: Author’s Consistently and Systematically Tenacious Life in the United States Chapter VIII: Author’s Proactive Talent for Resisting and Reducing the Grief of Losing a Loved One Chapter IX: Vital Importance of Exercising in a Permanent and Systematic Way Chapter X: Proactive and Procrastinating People Chapter XI: May the Inclusion of the Assumption “Other Things Constant” Detain or Propel Procrastination? Chapter XII: Changing One’s Life for the Better Tenacious or Procrastinating Approaches Conclusions
About the Author
Antonio Evaristo Morales-Pita has worked as a university professor for 56 years in Cuba, Mexico and the USA, where he has been recipient of numerous national awards. He has written and published eight books. In the US, he self-published Havana-Merida-Chicago (A Journey to Freedom) and sold 2,500 copies. He also published Gladys, My Unforgettable Love , of which 1,200 copies were sold, on his own resources. He is an inspirational speaker, promoting his books in colleges, universities, factories, and business firms. He has been official contributor in newspapers and journals, and can speak, write and read in Spanish, English, Russian, Italian and French.
Dedication
In memoriam to my mother, Siria, who is my role model in education, tenacity, and iron will.
In memoriam to my wife, whose main incredible achievement is to have transformed me into an empathetic and better human being.
In recognition to my children, Rosita and Tonito, whose lives justify my fatherhood.
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Morales-Pita, PhD, Antonio Evaristo
Grit + Tenacity + Proactivism
ISBN 9781638297369 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781638297376 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022915018
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Acknowledgment
Professor Miles Harvey, a modest successful best seller, and one of my best friends.
Austin Macauley Publishers for being the first publisher who recognized my destiny of becoming a best seller.
Preliminary Remarks A Proposal of Key to Success
The purpose of this book is to testify how the combination of grit plus tenacity plus being proactive has allowed the author of this book to be successful fighting against procrastination in the battlegrounds of primary school, learning English in Cuba in two years, going through secondary education, high school, bachelor, master’s and Ph degrees, in Cuban, Scottish, Ukrainian universities and academy of sciences, being professor in Cuban, Mexican, and American universities, mastering four foreign languages, escaping from communism in Cuba, working as a translator from English and Russian to Spanish, being married with a wife living in different homes during five years, prioritizing fatherhood engulfed in conflicts between a revengeful first wife and an extraordinary second wife, being a merry widower while loving his special late wife, to systematically maintain cardiovascular fitness exercising his entire body for at least three decades after turning 59 and having a heart attack, being able to reduce weight in fifty pounds slowly in small but systematic decreases during twenty three years, enjoying traveling around the world with his wife or alone for more than six decades with a reasonable level of expenditures. Which is one of the author’s important ways to achieve pro-activism and consequently to defeat procrastination?
Talent is usually defined as a natural aptitude or ability to successfully perform activities, such as scientific, artistic, cultural, pedagogic, and so on. Skill is frequently identified as dexterity, mastery to create something, or to do a special contribution to society. Trait is often recognized as an important characteristic of someone’s personality or appearance.
In this author’s opinion, grit, tenacity, and anticipation can be categorized as talents, skills, or traits. This book will refer to them as important abilities to defeat procrastination, whose antonym can be defined as anticipation or being proactive. In english stackexchange.com/ question/what-is-the opposite-of-procrastination-in-one-word , the reader can find many possible antonyms of procrastination, such as anticipation, prioritization, and many others.
During his eight decades living in Cuba, Great Britain, Ukraine, Mexico, and the United States, he has encountered many opportunities to be systematically able to face procrastination being proactive by means of tenacity, and courage. The main purpose of writing this book is to show how his mother’s behavior and attitude – to stand up after a fall or even the menace or threat of achieving goals – influenced his performance even after her decease, at 88 years old.
After an analysis of her personal traits which were transmitted to him during different stages that is to say: childhood, adulthood, middle age, and the senior years, in quora.com this author could find an interesting comment submitted by Mr. Caled Freese, relative to the evaluating which stage is more important for a human being – which contains an analysis between good habits in contraposition with procrastination. Here it goes in its entirety:
“Although every stage of life is important, I’d say that one of the most important stages is your teen to young adult years. This is when the decisions you make can really impact your life, negatively or positively. Any habits that you develop during this time will fester and multiply later in your life.
Develop a habit of procrastination, and you set a habit of procrastination for the rest of your life. Spend half of your time drinking alcohol or doing drugs, you develop an addiction to these that can harm you for the rest of your life. Develop a strong work ethic, and you set a habit of working hard that will set you above many people for the rest of your life.
All I’m trying to say is that the habits you develop during your teen to young adult years will stay with you for the rest of your life, so it is important that you develop good habits. As time goes on, your bad habits will become worse, and your good habits will become even greater.
Side note: it is possible to escape bad habits, but it is very difficult. Trying to stop something – once you have been doing it for a long time – is a lot harder than it seems. An example of this for me is chewing my nails. I’ve been trying to stop for about six months, but whenever I’m not thinking, I just go back to my old habit. This is because it is ingrained in my mind. Something ingrained in your mind is very difficult to get rid of.”
Introduction List of Authors Whose Books Can Relate to Procrastination
“I never lose. Either I win or I Learn”
—Nelson Mandela Angela Duckworth – GRIT the Power of Passion and Perseverance #1 New York Times Bestseller
The Main content of the book is to show that the secret to outstanding achievement is a special combination of passion, courage, and persistence, which she calls grit.
It deals with the meaning of grit, as a combination of courage and persistency in opposition as talent or intelligence for succeeding in whatever purpose the individual is chasing. She doesn’t mention the word procrastination inside the book, not even in the index.
On page 275 of Angela Duckworth’s GRIT The Power of Passion and Perseverance, she wrote:
“To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall seven times and rise eight.” Along the book, Dr. Duckworth proves the necessary introduction of “grit” to demonstrate that intelligence is less related than courage and tenacity to successful performers regardless of whatever their fields or environments can be. In my opinion, her conclusions are correct and eye-opening in her readers. My suggestion is that she does not mention an important factor that would be an obstacle to achieving success, like procrastination.
According to Wikipedia: “Grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual’s perseverance of effort combined with the passion for a particular long-term goal o