$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$
$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$
$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$
$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$
$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$
$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$

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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

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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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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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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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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Develop Passion Person Want Young
What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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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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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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Complete Domain Gritter Job Keep Matter People Sales Soldier Training
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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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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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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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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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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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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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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