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Summarize each of the four characteristics of grit in your own words. 3-5 sentences.

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Summarize each of the four characteristics of grit in your own words. 3-5 sentences.

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This characteristic deals with what you're passionate about. Having passion for something gives you the ability to focus more fully on it. That focus can lead to a deeper drive to learn and grow in that subject or task.

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Through practice, and more importantly deliberate practice, you can grow and develop the things you are passionate about. Practice in relation to grit requires a focus on the things you need to improve on rather than the things you're already good at. By focusing on those areas, your grit will drive you even further in completing your goals.

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Identifying your purpose for pursing a certain passion will help you find the strength, or resilience, to continue working on it. This area of grit is important because it can boost up the other important characteristic areas of grit. When you know why you're doing something, it makes it much easier to keep moving forward even when mistakes are made.

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Through any journey to grow and thrive, you have to maintain hope for the future outcome. Taking setbacks as learning moments rather than impassable obstacles builds up your confidence and willingness to keep going. Your hope is the ribbon that holds together the other components of grit, making sure it all sticks together to drive you forward.

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Describe the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. 3-5 sentences.

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Describe the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. 3-5 sentences.

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A growth mindset allows you to work on yourself in positive ways. It shows you that regardless of setbacks or mistakes, you can put in enough effort and work to change things and grow as a person. You will push yourself further and stay on course for longer with a growth mindset because you believe that one day, you will succeed and all the work will be worth it.

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The fixed mindset impedes growth because you believe nothing will change your current skill level or intelligence. You don't see future change or growth and refuse to push yourself harder or further. You want to prove yourself to others but your anxiety holds you back from getting better.

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Find an example in the form of an article, video, or interview of a successful professional discussing a time when they faced a challenge. Provide a link to the example.

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Find an example in the form of an article, video, or interview of a successful professional discussing a time when they faced a challenge. Provide a link to the example.

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Director Matthew Heineman put his life on the line for his art with his drug cartel documentary , which won awards for cinematography and directing at the Sundance Film Festival in January and recently landed a spot on Oscar's feature documentary shortlist. Cartel Land, distributed by The Orchard and executive produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, revolves around vigilantes on both side of the border - in Arizona and Mexico - who find their own separate motivations for battling the ubiquitous violence of the drug cartels. Last night, Heineman sat down with Deadline's Dominic Patten at the AwardsLine screening for the film to discuss his inspiration and the challenges of shooting in a country devastated by violence.

Having previously made a documentary about health care in the United States - "about a different type of war," he quips - Heineman became fascinated with the way cartel violence had been glorified in the media, and with questions about how he would respond if he, himself, became yet another victim of it.

Says Heineman, "Every single day, especially in Mexico, I constantly thought, 'What would I do? What would I do if my sister was raped or my dad was hanging from a bridge? Would I grab a gun? Is that right, is that just? Is vigilantism sustainable?'" Heineman's well-executed intention was "to get at the heart of how this cartel violence is affecting everyday people, the response of everyday people rising up to fight back, and then the ramifications of what happens when citizens take the law into their own hands." As film went on, Heineman was struck by the way in which the lines between good and evil became increasingly blurry, and became obsessed with the pursuit of clarity.

For Heineman, one of the major challenges of the production was gaining access to figureheads on both sides of the border who didn't necessarily have a reason to trust him. One of his main subjects - Tim "Nailer" Foley, the leader of the Arizona Border Recon , had felt "burned" by a Rolling Stone article in which he appeared, making it a months-long struggle for the director to gain his confidence. Subsequently, Heineman's father sent his son an article about the Autodefensas in Mexico - a vigilante group combating the cartel violence - which broke the story open for the director, giving him his "parallel portrait of vigilantism on both sides of the border." Little did his father know that he would take this information and run with it, delving deep into the Mexican conflict and often putting himself in the crossfire. "It took a few weeks for my mom to start talking to my dad again after that," Heineman says.

What allowed Heineman to get this critical access was simply - time. The director, who also shot the film, alongside DP Matt Porwoll, spent one to two weeks a month for nine months filming in Mexico, which allowed him to become close with Doctor Mireles, leader of the Autodefensas, as well as other key figures. "By the end of filming, pretty much everyone in Michoacán knew who I was - they called me 'El Gringo' for better or for worse," Heineman says. Still, the director felt extraordinarily lucky to be granted as much access as he was. For the Autodefensas, "The tensions were extraordinarily high. Two of their members had been assassinated by two guys on mopeds on a highway nearby." Getting access to the meth manufacturers, in particular, took months and was a very nerve-wracking process. Going to meet with them, he was led to the outskirts of town, by the freeway, and he felt at the time, "'This is their way of getting rid of me and the story.'" "But once we started shooting, my instincts took over," he says.

"This is a story that we've seen playing out throughout history, that we see playing out in the world today and will continue to see as long as we have a failure of government institutions and societies or people that feel like they're not being protected by their respective governments, or by the lack of a government," the director says.

Since 2007, more than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico and over 20,000 have disappeared completely, never to be heard from again. The "elephant in the room" is simple economics - as long as there's a demand for drugs in the U.S., there will be a supply. Indeed, this is a war that the U.S. is funding. "If you go out tonight and have a mojito, the lime in your drink is coming from Michoacán. If you go out and have tacos tonight, the avocado is most likely coming from Michoacán. And if you go do meth tonight, the meth is most likely coming from Michoacán," said the director about the highly coveted region.

After shooting completed in August 2014, Heineman and his editor, Matthew Hamachek, realized that at their current pace, and with a mountain of footage in front of them, there was no way they'd finish in time to submit to Sundance. The duo brought on two other editors, Pax Wassermann and Bradley Ross, who helped them get the film finished in time in what was, for Heineman, "a painful, crazy experiment."

But despite this wide array of challenges, from craft difficulties to life-and-death scenarios, Heineman lived to tell the tale. "The film has changed my life. I think I'd be inhuman if it didn't change me," he says. With a major, successful release in Mexico and the States, and on VOD, hopefully that change will extend, gradual as it may be, to the world at large.

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How Director Matthew Heineman Seized 'Cartel Land': Oscar Documentary Shortlist

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'Cartel Land' director/DP Matthew Heineman sat down with Deadline's Dominic Patten to discuss putting his life in danger for his art.

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Did the professional display grit in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 characteristics of gritty people discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

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Did the professional display grit in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 characteristics of gritty people discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

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I think the director showed all the characteristics of grit, but the two biggest would be purpose and hope. He knew his purpose early on and continued to move forward despite the challenges and dangers that purpose presented. His hope pushed him forward, even when he was worried his life was in danger. He didn't give up when he was met with obstacles and pushed through when it seemed bleak.

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Did the professional practice a growth mindset in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 growth mindset strategies discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

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Did the professional practice a growth mindset in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 growth mindset strategies discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

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I think he did. Through all of the potential setbacks he found himself experiencing, he never gave up. He always pushed forward, even when it was his literal life on the line. He sought out a massive challenge in this documentary and struggled financially as well as receiving threats to his life. However, he persevered and created a documentary that would be critically acclaimed.

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How can grit and the growth mindset help you as a student? 3-5 sentences.

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How can grit and the growth mindset help you as a student? 3-5 sentences.

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Maintaining a growth mindset and utilizing grit will help me grow and thrive as a student because when used hand-in-hand, they will help me continue to push myself. Using the four characteristics of grit and remembering that my mistakes and setbacks don't define me are massive motivators to keep going. I have been guilty of having a fixed mindset in the past, but moving forward will only happen if I work to change that and myself to succeed where I want to succeed.