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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

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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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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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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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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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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 ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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 was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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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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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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