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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

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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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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 believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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