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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.

Angela Duckworth

If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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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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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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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop 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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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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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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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