Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHThe words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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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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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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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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