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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

Angela Duckworth

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
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
It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Error Foster Important Passion Realize Rocess Trial
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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Commitment Finish Fulfill Good Kid Sense Start Teach Thing Very
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Classroom Country Diploma Earn Effective Grittier Likely More People Place Student Teacher
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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Disappoint Finish Focus Girl Let Question Scare Setback Think
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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Being Sit Differently Explain Intelligent Live Next Out People Really Remember
I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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Available Extra Kid Lunch Phone Stay Teaching Tutoring
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Hold Symbolic Think Use Value Word
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Basket Carry Egg Extent Grit Put Some
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
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Develop Passion Person Want Young
And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Age City Discover Gritter Hand Pattern Something Striking
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
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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Accomplish Challenge Commencement Older One Person Speech Talk Wise Wiser Young

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