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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.

Angela Duckworth

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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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Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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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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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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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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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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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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