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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.

Angela Duckworth

You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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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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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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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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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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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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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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