Where to Buy Grit
A Rundown of the Various Platforms
I plan to keep this page updated with each new platform and retailer, as my book becomes more widely available. Right now, here is where you can buy it:
Hardback, Paperback, and E-Book:
Amazon (all three)
IngramSpark (paperback): Ingram makes my book available for distribution to libraries and bookstores worldwide. You should be able to go to your local library or bookstore and ask them to order it. The simplest option will be for them to use this ISBN: 9781087969855
You can also type in that ISBN into Barnes and Noble’s search bar (or use this link) and buy it from them. Confusingly, the e-book is separate from the paperback on Barnes and Noble.
E-Book:
*I receive slightly less of the profit from sales on these platforms.
Universal Book Link:
You can also go to Books2Read.com by using this Universal Book Link, where you’ll see a rundown of the different stores and formats. I plan to keep both this page and that one updated, but you can check them against each other.
What’s the Book About?
Here is the description copy (blurb) that I use:
“In so many ways, our lives are easier than ever. We’re sheltered from the elements our ancestors braved daily. We don’t need to grow, hunt, or gather our food, nor do we ever need to feel hungry for more than a few hours. We can immerse ourselves in digital entertainment that stimulates us in ways our great grandparents never could have imagined.
And yet we’re unhappy. There were over 45,000 suicides and over 100,000 drug overdoses in America in 2021, and surveys have been consistently showing that we’re the unhappiest we’ve been in decades since before the pandemic.
This is the problem of ease. We’re drowning in pleasure, and yet so many of us seem unable to bear one minute without it. We’re more comfortable than ever, and less able to handle discomforts our ancestors would have found trivial. Grit is an antidote to this problem, an exploration of the value of chosen suffering.
In a time when we’re so comfortable some people wonder whether we even need grit anymore, this book is a meditation on the virtue of it.
Grit is a roadmap for anyone looking to escape the suffocation of ease. It’s a blueprint for tapping into the natural antifragility of the human mind and body. Along the way, you’ll learn about the power of habit, the role of external environment, risk, fear, courage, and more. Grit will teach you new ways to challenge yourself physically and mentally, from fasting, to exercise, to cold exposure, to memorizing poetry.
Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and experience, Ben Connelly will show you not only why a good life requires chosen suffering, but how and what to choose.”
Basically, Grit is part self-help book, part treatise on the virtue of grit and on the value of chosen suffering in the good life. It’s also a bit of a primer on how to apply discipline in your daily life, how to overcome fear, how to stop worrying so much about what other people think of you, and a few other things. Finally, it’s my partial answer to the coming-of-age crisis and to the crisis of meaning in modern life.