There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHI believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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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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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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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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 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 would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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There’s something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.
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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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