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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?

Angela Duckworth

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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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 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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Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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 no shortcuts to true excellence.
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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?

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