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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.

Angela Duckworth

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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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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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