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

Angela Duckworth

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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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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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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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