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

Angela Duckworth

Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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 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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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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