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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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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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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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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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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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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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