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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

Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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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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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it’s part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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