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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Angela Duckworth

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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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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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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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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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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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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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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