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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

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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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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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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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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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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