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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

Angela Duckworth

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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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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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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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 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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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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