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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Angela Duckworth

What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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Consult Demand Job Management More People Perseverance Reliability Teach
Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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After Again People Some Try
Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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Do Fascinate Feel Few Going Keep Merely People Person Something Very
Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Call Experience Life Maturity Own Principle Pschllogistic
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
Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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Everything People Prefer Some Talent Wally World
Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
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
Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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Being Everything Fact Give Gritty Healthy Look Mean OK People Pretend Show Successful
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
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
I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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Come Country Day Dream Everything Like One People Person True Want Wildest
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
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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Absorbed Dad Intention Parenting Self Super
The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Achievement Being Focus Just Less Ridiculous Right Score Standardized Synonymous Teenager Think

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