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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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.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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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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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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 do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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