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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.

Angela Duckworth

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
Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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Awesome Drive Encourage Environment Qquashed Soccer Something Well Wonderful
At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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Big Down Get Grit Knock Lose Point Prevail Various Way
Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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Cultivation Define Early Energetic Interest Maybe Need Refinement Vaguely
Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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Do Fascinate Feel Few Going Keep Merely People Person Something Very
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
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
There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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Leave Lot Male Path Resistance Same Sense Something Take Time
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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Important Interest Most Nduringly Other People Really Something
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 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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Disappoint Finish Focus Girl Let Question Scare Setback Think
I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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Aspire Country Every Go Know Necessarily Think
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
Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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After Again People Some Try
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
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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But Character Develop Emotion Empathy Idea Intelligence Think

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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