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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Angela Duckworth

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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it’s part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

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