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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

Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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Complete Domain Gritter Job Keep Matter People Sales Soldier Training
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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Actively Deepen Discover Interest Interested Something Yourself
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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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
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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Competing Daughter Discover Made Season Second Track Was
At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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Big Down Get Grit Knock Lose Point Prevail Various Way
Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Control Grit Relate Same Self Thing
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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Absorbed Dad Intention Parenting Self Super
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Anything Genes Lot Spent Them Think
When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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Can People Reflex Say Something Tell Visceral
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 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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Challenge Genetic Girl Inherited Learn Science Studies
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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But Character Develop Emotion Empathy Idea Intelligence Think
As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Become Deteriorate Eyesight Hip Impulse Kinder Knee Less Moody More Our
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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Cultivation Define Early Energetic Interest Maybe Need Refinement Vaguely
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
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Develop Passion Person Want Young
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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Disappoint Finish Focus Girl Let Question Scare Setback Think

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