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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.

Angela Duckworth

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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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.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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