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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.

Angela Duckworth

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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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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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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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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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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.
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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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