I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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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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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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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.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH