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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.

Angela Duckworth

Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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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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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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