That “grittiness” test is a joke, right? Task saliency is a poor marker for grit. If that were true the grittiest people would be workaholics, which just isn’t what I think of when I think gritty. Also, you can’t expect people to honestly self-report about something as character defining as “being a hard worker”. lol. Might as well ask, “are you, on the whole, a good person?” My observation is that in the USA, being a hard worker is considered the basis of being a good person. Like I literally get told, “you are a hard worker” as a baseline compliment all the time, even though I don’t believe it. I personally do!’t really like being called a hard worker, and strive to work smart, not hard.

That said, I’m a fairly gritty person. I run everyday outside, whether its raining, snowing or the outside temps are in excess of 110F(43C). I’ve gone on many long alpine backpacking trips, thin air, wet weather, blustery passes, crossing ice fields. I usually camp with just a tarp if I can get away with it. Type II fun is my fav, most people I know think of me as exceptionally gritty.

I’ve worked grueling hours on businesses I had interest in, doing heavy manual labor for 10 hours before moving on to office work, spending my weekends on maintenance and catching up on paperwork. Doing disgusting work no one wants to do is kinda my specialty.

That test put me in the bottom 10% of US adults. I just answered it honestly, not aspirationally.