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Angela Duckworth

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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
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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 is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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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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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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