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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.

Angela Duckworth

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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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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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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