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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.

Angela Duckworth

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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 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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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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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Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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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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