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 DUCKWORTHEverybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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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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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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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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