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 DUCKWORTHReally, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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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 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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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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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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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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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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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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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 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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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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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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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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