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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.

Angela Duckworth

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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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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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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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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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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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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 know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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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 when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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