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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.

Angela Duckworth

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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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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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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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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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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$

I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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