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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’

Angela Duckworth

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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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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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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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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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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