I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHGrit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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 worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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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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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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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 haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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 focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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