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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.

Angela Duckworth

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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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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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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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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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.
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