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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Angela Duckworth

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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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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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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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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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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