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.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHI 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.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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 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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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