Sixteen-year-old jonah practices his violin several hours a week with no prompting from his parents. his goal is to be accepted to juilliard school and someday perform with the new york philharmonic. jonah's behavior exemplifies:

Jonah is illustrating a trait called grit in which is a positive and non-cognitive trait where an individual is likely to have a motivation that is so powerful in means of achieving the task or goals that he or she wants to achieve such as how Jonah is practicing hard for the sake of accepting to the Julliard school and perform with the new York philharmonic.