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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.

Angela Duckworth

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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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 think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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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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One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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