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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.

Angela Duckworth

I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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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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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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