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

Angela Duckworth

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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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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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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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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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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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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The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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 would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

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