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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.

Angela Duckworth

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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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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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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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