What Does Grit Mean When the Mission Comes First?

Anastasios Angelopoulos thinks of grit as people who never give up. Day in and day out they come in with their nose to the grindstone. Even if terrible things are happening around them, or something else is pulling them in another direction, they never lose focus. They always pursue the goal. The work is never about themselves, and they never have any ego about it. Grit means somebody who is always putting the greater mission ahead of themselves and is willing to do anything to get the job done.

Joubin Mirzadegan had been going back over the company for the last couple of weeks. His fiancé wrote the full Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena quote in marker across the entire bathroom mirror. The quote reminded him of what Angelopoulos had just described, in one plain way: sometimes you just have to be in it.