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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.

Angela Duckworth

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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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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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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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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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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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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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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