The Seba library treats Grit in 3 passages, across 3 authors (including Moore, Thomas, Easwaran, Eknath, Dayton, Tian).
his hostility toward his colleagues came out of him with real grit. ‘I hope they all die Jung,’ he once uttered through his teeth.
Moore treats grit as the affective texture of authentic hostility surfacing through depression, evidence that the soul has gained genuine firmness and substance by abandoning naïve benevolence.
, Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: A Guide, 1992thesis
Even if we had to grit our teeth for a while to keep back angry words, afterwards we will feel good inside.
Easwaran frames grit as a somatic act of volitional restraint — the bodily effort required to transmute reactive anger into good karma and self-mastery.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975supporting
For growing kids, a little hardship that they can overcome may be more developmentally valuable than a seemingly perfect world that they can control.
Dayton argues implicitly for grit as a developmental acquisition, insisting that resilience and psychological muscle are built only through surmountable adversity, not protection from it.
, Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Lasting Fulfillment, 2007supporting