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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Angela Duckworth

There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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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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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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Actively Deepen Discover Interest Interested Something Yourself
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
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
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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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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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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Important Interest Most Nduringly Other People Really Something
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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