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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

It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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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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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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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.

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