Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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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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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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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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