Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHNegative 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.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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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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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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