It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.
