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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.

Angela Duckworth

People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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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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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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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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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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