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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.

Angela Duckworth

When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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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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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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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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