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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.

Angela Duckworth

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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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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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You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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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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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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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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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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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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