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

Angela Duckworth

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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Academically Game Instructional Kid Know Sum Time Well Zero
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
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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Accomplish Challenge Commencement Older One Person Speech Talk Wise Wiser Young
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
There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Kid Peak Quit Valley Want
As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Become Deteriorate Eyesight Hip Impulse Kinder Knee Less Moody More Our
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Hold Symbolic Think Use Value Word
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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Available Extra Kid Lunch Phone Stay Teaching Tutoring
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Better Daily Long Matter Really Run Stick Work
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
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.
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Come Country Day Dream Everything Like One People Person True Want Wildest
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
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
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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Absorbed Dad Intention Parenting Self Super
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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Awesome Drive Encourage Environment Qquashed Soccer Something Well Wonderful
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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Consult Demand Job Management More People Perseverance Reliability Teach

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