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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

Angela Duckworth

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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Available Extra Kid Lunch Phone Stay Teaching Tutoring
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Anything Genes Lot Spent Them Think
So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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Competing Daughter Discover Made Season Second Track Was
During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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College Country During High Involve Public School Service Titoting Undergrad Year
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
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 was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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Can People Reflex Say Something Tell Visceral
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
One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.
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Day Do Gritty Love Loving One People Think True Week
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
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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Absorbed Dad Intention Parenting Self Super
Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
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
There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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Challenge Genetic Girl Inherited Learn Science Studies
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Classroom Country Diploma Earn Effective Grittier Likely More People Place Student Teacher

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