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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

Angela Duckworth

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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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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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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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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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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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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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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