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.
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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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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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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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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