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• Definition: gumption.
• 7 gumption n 1: sound practical judgment; "I can't see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately shw had the sense to run away" syn: common sense, good sense, horse sense, sense, mother wit 2: (informal) fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand .
• Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Gumption \Gump"tion\, n. ...

• Gumption Traps.
• Robert Persig, in Zen and the Art of motorcycle Maintenance, defines the old-fashion word "gumption" as it relates to quality. ... Persig says that gumption describes "exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality. He gets filled with gumption. ...
• Persig: "A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things. ... That's gumption. " (303) Persig also calls gumption the "psychic gasoline," that fills our motivation tank so that we're able to do the very same things we were sick to death of before we did our gumption-filling "no-account" things, such as fishing or some other whileawaying activity that puts the savor back in the salt. Peace-of-mind-making activity is the only prerequisite needed to get filled with gumption. ...
• It makes gumption the paramount source needed to cull out and sort asunder the good seeds from the bad. Or, to put it another way, gumption keeps us contacting the world from Quality and not from anger and frustration or greed and violence, or from a host of other deadly energy sinkholes we can lapse into to muck things up good. The problem, though, is that life is also God's or Quality's ingenious invention for testing our resolve to find ways to avoid the "gumption traps" that lie hidden in the most innocuous seeming situations, and into which we stumble and then must, if we care enough, spend energy setting things right again. A gumption trap is "anything that causes one to lose sight of Quality, and thus lose one's enthusiasm for what one is doing. " (305) Persig sees two main types of gumption traps: 1. ... " As it so happens, these two gumption traps are often related. ...
• Ideally our work, the thing in which we spend most of lives, should be gumption building, not gumption destroying. ... Whose responsibility is it to promote Quality? I'll give you the answer: Each and everyone of us! Get a little gumption going for you and just see how well and how soon things improve. ...

• Rachel Davies Comments: Gumption Traps .
• For me, one of the biggest gumption traps is to work on things that add no value.
• I worked at one place that had no gumption traps (at least for me, I was pretty junior) which was Digital's Systems Research Center. ...

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• Subject: Gumption and Holiday 11/14 .
• From: gumption@email. ...
• This is the early-warning post regarding the Gumption and Holiday gig at Local 506 on November 14. ... I won't say anything about Gumption, but Holiday is a really good, fun band. ...

• GUMPTION.
• Gumption is to the workplace what the Grinch is to Christmas. Irritated by the indignity of having to perform menial tasks for wretched pay, Gumption seethes in his own juices as he lays in wait for his next unsuspecting victim. ...
• Not even the ever-amiable Lil' Pengy can save Gumption, although he is usually reduced to a jabbering madman in our hero's 'hello' wake. ... Gumption's revenge is always just a new job away. ...
• Fun Fact: Working as a receptionist for the Rape N' Pillage Talent Agency Gumption made Marilyn Manson cry.
• What others say about Gumption:.
• Nothing makes my day like threatening to sue ol' Gumption. ... Let's face it, Gumption completes me. ...
• Hamsta - "I don't know a thing about any "Gumption", but I love a good Philly cheese steak with me grog. ... actually I think one time I was choking this judge in Cincinnati and he said I had a lot of gumption. It was either gumption or Jack Daniels, but who can bloody remember? .
• Gumption is 'Friggin' A-hole'. ...
• Gumption gets so many reception jobs despite having absolutely no social skills and a preternatural hatred for everything. ...

• Gumption Traps.
• The book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig introduces the idea of Gumption Traps; things that sap motivation, such as not having the correct tools. In this workshop, you will use techniques from Systems Thinking to identify and understand Gumption Traps that face you so that you can determine how to avoid or combat them. ...

• gumption.
• gumption - sound practical judgment; "I can't see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"common sense, good sense, horse sense, mother wit, sensesagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment - ability to make good judgmentslogic - reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"nous - common sense; "she has great social nous"road sense - good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road.
• gumption - fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"guts, moxie, backbone, grit, sandfortitude - strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with couragecolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech.
• "Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn -- if you've got natural gumption enough -- in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you.
• "Professor Beecher has more gumption than I gave him credit for," he said.
• The big, white light-house on the red sandstone cliff had its good points; but no stork possessed of any gumption would leave a new, velvet baby there.
• Some words with "gumption" in the definition:.

• gumption.
• People with alot of gumption are sometimes considerd to be crack pots or eccentric, but that's mainly because they're always up to something.
• One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. ...

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• Fostering Gumption: Helping Community Service Learning Interns Integrate Their Personal, Professional and Political Selves .
• Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. ... Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption. ...
• Therefore, even if we did not succeed in helping students achieve dramatic developmental transitions, we did succeed in providing sufficient support for them to have the gumption to take new risks. As Pirsig (1974) has observed: "The gumption-filling process occurs when one is quiet long enough to see and hear and feel the real universe, not just one's stale opinions about it. ... 273) Our students may not have achieved anything exotic, but they did foster gumption. ...
• Students made drawings or designs, engaged in role plays, worked with metaphor, or tried movement as expression-all diverse routes to the seeing, hearing, and feeling that are part of the gumption-filling process. ...
• We hold onto our aspirations for these students to strengthen their own voices through personal reflection and experiential learning; we have not abandoned our faith in their abilities to perceive social needs and political injustice; we still believe that we have planted the seeds that will grow into a stronger sense of self and foster the gumption it takes to be an agent for social change for the common good. ...
• Where we succeeded the most was in fostering gumption, and we need to validate that in our practice as instructors. ... At the same time we need to embrace and nurture the gumption-filling process so that students become intrinsically compelled to work for social justice. ...

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