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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.

Angela Duckworth

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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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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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