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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

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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Consult Demand Job Management More People Perseverance Reliability Teach
Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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Complete Domain Gritter Job Keep Matter People Sales Soldier Training
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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Everything People Prefer Some Talent Wally World
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
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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Adult Country Girl Scale Score Thousand
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Hold Symbolic Think Use Value Word
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Ambition Amplified Clear Father Natively Think Value Whatever
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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Boredom Conscious Definition Emotion Interest Self
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
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Error Foster Important Passion Realize Rocess Trial
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
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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Also Good Grit Most Parent Style Thing
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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Better Define Rate Something Talent Try

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