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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

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Intelligence Many Matter Measure Other Thing Work
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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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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Actively Deepen Discover Interest Interested Something Yourself
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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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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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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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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