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

Angela Duckworth

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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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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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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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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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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