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

Angela Duckworth

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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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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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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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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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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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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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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