You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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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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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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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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