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

Angela Duckworth

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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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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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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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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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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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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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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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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