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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.

Angela Duckworth

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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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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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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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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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I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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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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One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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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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