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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.

Angela Duckworth

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 think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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Better Daily Long Matter Really Run Stick Work
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
As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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Being Everything Fact Give Gritty Healthy Look Mean OK People Pretend Show Successful
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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Better Define Rate Something Talent Try
When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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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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