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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.

Angela Duckworth

It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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.
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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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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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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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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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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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