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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.

Angela Duckworth

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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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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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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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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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on 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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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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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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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 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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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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