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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

Angela Duckworth

Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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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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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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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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Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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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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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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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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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 would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

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