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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

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Comfort Gritty People Train End Zone
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
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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Drive People Think Word Wrong
Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Effort Everybody Matter Mattered Much Revelator
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Call Experience Life Maturity Own Principle Pschllogistic
There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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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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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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Awesome Being Competent Free Human Motivation Really Theory Thing Three Want
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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