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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

Angela Duckworth

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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Commitment Finish Fulfill Good Kid Sense Start Teach Thing Very
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Comfort Gritty People Train End Zone
As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Become Deteriorate Eyesight Hip Impulse Kinder Knee Less Moody More Our
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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Being Everything Fact Give Gritty Healthy Look Mean OK People Pretend Show Successful
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Anything Genes Lot Spent Them Think
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Building Girl Know Little Most Science Shock Thing
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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Great Iteration Often Rejected Screw Some Something Thing
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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Also Good Grit Most Parent Style Thing
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Basket Carry Egg Extent Grit Put Some
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Hold Symbolic Think Use Value Word
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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All Come Country Develop Drag Need Actively Once Passion People Person
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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Aspire Country Every Go Know Necessarily Think
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Control Grit Relate Same Self Thing
Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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Do Fascinate Feel Few Going Keep Merely People Person Something Very

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