Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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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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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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