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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

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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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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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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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