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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
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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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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What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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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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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
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Develop Passion Person Want Young
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Better Daily Long Matter Really Run Stick Work
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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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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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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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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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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Drive People Think Word Wrong
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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