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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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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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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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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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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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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Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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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 worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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