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It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.

Angela Duckworth

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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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And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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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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What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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