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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.

Angela Duckworth

People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
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
Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Effort Everybody Matter Mattered Much Revelator
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
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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Career Completly Direction Enough Harder Path Teacher Thing Work
Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
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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Available Extra Kid Lunch Phone Stay Teaching Tutoring
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Classroom Country Diploma Earn Effective Grittier Likely More People Place Student Teacher
I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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Come Country Day Dream Everything Like One People Person True Want Wildest
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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Across Follow Longitudinal Middle People Thousand School Shown Study Time
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Grit Life Living Marathon Spirit
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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Important Interest Most Nduringly Other People Really Something
Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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Great Iteration Often Rejected Screw Some Something Thing
I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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Aspire Country Every Go Know Necessarily Think
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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Develop Passion Person Want Young
And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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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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