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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Angela Duckworth

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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Consultant Gratitude Hard Harder Look Neuroscience School Work Worker
I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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Athlete CEO Four Know Look People Pushup So Spiking Three Varsity Volleyball Year
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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Adult Country Girl Scale Score Thousand
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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Drive People Think Word Wrong
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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Awesome Being Competent Free Human Motivation Really Theory Thing Three Want
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Achievement Being Focus Just Less Ridiculous Right Score Standardized Synonymous Teenager Think
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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Big Down Get Grit Knock Lose Point Prevail Various Way
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Comfort Gritty People Train End Zone
I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Ended Girl Really Surprise Women Would
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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Develop Passion Person Want Young
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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College Country During High Involve Public School Service Titoting Undergrad Year
Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Call Experience Life Maturity Own Principle Pschllogistic
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Building Girl Know Little Most Science Shock Thing

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