When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
ANGELA DUCKWORTHThere is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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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.
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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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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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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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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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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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