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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.

Angela Duckworth

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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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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There 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?
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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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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 would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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