Grit is even more important than IQ, he says. "I achieved design as somebody's slam I hit against the desk" He was so determined to succeed that every other tough challenge since then faded into insignificant relative acts. But somehow was there something in my genes? Was there something I had learned from my parents seeing them work themselves to the bone?

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