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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

Angela Duckworth

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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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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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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I 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.
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It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it’s part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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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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