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

Angela Duckworth

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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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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Drive People Think Word Wrong
There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Kid Peak Quit Valley Want
I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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Consultant Gratitude Hard Harder Look Neuroscience School Work Worker
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Age City Discover Gritter Hand Pattern Something Striking
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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Adequate Child Constrained Education Orientated Ote Person Policy Study Taken Whole
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Ambition Amplified Clear Father Natively Think Value Whatever
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Cultivation Define Early Energetic Interest Maybe Need Refinement Vaguely
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Better Daily Long Matter Really Run Stick Work
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Comfort Gritty People Train End Zone
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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Accomplish Challenge Commencement Older One Person Speech Talk Wise Wiser Young

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