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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.

Angela Duckworth

I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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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 think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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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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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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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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