Emerging Grit
Right now, both the consistency of your interests and your perseverance through obstacles are still settling in: it's common to switch focus when something more exciting comes along, or to lose momentum once a project stays hard for a long stretch. That's not a fixed personality trait, Angela Duckworth's own research shows grit can be built with practice. A concrete step: pick one mid-term goal for the next three months and protect it from any change of direction, even once the initial excitement cools off.
Developing Grit
You already show some steadiness: you can hold onto a goal for a while and push through part of the setbacks along the way, but there's still wobble, whether switching focus when a new interest appears or losing steam during plateaus. The two grit subdimensions, consistency of interest and perseverance of effort, probably show up unevenly in you. It's worth identifying which one is your weaker point and training specifically there, research shows grit responds well to deliberate practice and feedback, it isn't a fixed gift.
Consistent Grit
You hold a solid pattern on both fronts: your long-term interests don't shift every few months, and you typically push through setbacks instead of abandoning what you started. That puts you above average on both subdimensions of Duckworth's model, without being an extreme case in either one. The next step of growth is less about "trying harder" and more about refining where you aim that persistence, grit works best when it's pointed at a purpose that genuinely matters to you, not just whatever goal comes along.
High Grit
Your answers point to high consistency of interest and high perseverance of effort, you rarely abandon a goal out of boredom or the first serious difficulty, and your long-term focuses stay stable across years. This is the profile Duckworth's research links to sustained performance in domains that require years of deliberate practice. The one real caution at this level is to periodically check whether the goal still makes sense, high grit without that periodic check can turn into productive stubbornness pointed the wrong way.
Exceptional Grit
You're at the top of both subdimensions: consistency of interest and perseverance of effort both come through strong and aligned in your answers, suggesting someone who picks a small number of long-term goals and sticks with them through failures, plateaus, and years of unglamorous work. That's exactly the pattern Duckworth's original research linked to exceptional performance in settings like West Point, sales, and spelling bees. Just worth remembering that grit this high can be costly if aimed at the wrong goal, use your capacity to sustain effort to choose carefully before you commit.