Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHI stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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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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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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