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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.

Angela Duckworth

I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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Adequate Child Constrained Education Orientated Ote Person Policy Study Taken Whole
There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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Care Excel Hard Important Kid Lesson Many Score Test Thing Try
I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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Finish Force Important Message Needed Occasionally Parent Practice Remind Send Thing Think Very
Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Intelligence Many Matter Measure Other Thing Work
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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Better Define Rate Something Talent Try
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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Cultivation Define Early Energetic Interest Maybe Need Refinement Vaguely
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Basket Carry Egg Extent Grit Put Some
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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Adult Country Girl Scale Score Thousand
Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Effort Everybody Matter Mattered Much Revelator
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Ambition Amplified Clear Father Natively Think Value Whatever
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Building Girl Know Little Most Science Shock Thing
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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Drive People Think Word Wrong
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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All Come Country Develop Drag Need Actively Once Passion People Person

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