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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.

Angela Duckworth

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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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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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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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