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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.

Angela Duckworth

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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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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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