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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?

Angela Duckworth

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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Complete Domain Gritter Job Keep Matter People Sales Soldier Training
I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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Athlete CEO Four Know Look People Pushup So Spiking Three Varsity Volleyball Year
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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Accomplish Challenge Commencement Older One Person Speech Talk Wise Wiser Young
Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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Cultivation Define Early Energetic Interest Maybe Need Refinement Vaguely
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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Also Good Grit Most Parent Style Thing
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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Competing Daughter Discover Made Season Second Track Was
Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Call Experience Life Maturity Own Principle Pschllogistic
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Better Daily Long Matter Really Run Stick Work
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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Drive People Think Word Wrong
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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Everything People Prefer Some Talent Wally World
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Basket Carry Egg Extent Grit Put Some
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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Adolescence Around Individual Interest Lifelong Many Report Start
I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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Finish Force Important Message Needed Occasionally Parent Practice Remind Send Thing Think Very
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Building Girl Know Little Most Science Shock Thing

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