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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.

Angela Duckworth

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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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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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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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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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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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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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