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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.

Angela Duckworth

There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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 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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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