I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
ANGELA DUCKWORTHVery few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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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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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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