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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

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Anything Genes Lot Spent Them Think
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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Available Extra Kid Lunch Phone Stay Teaching Tutoring
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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Develop Passion Person Want Young
I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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Academically Game Instructional Kid Know Sum Time Well Zero
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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Able Better Bit Discomfort never Pain Tolarte
Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Intelligence Many Matter Measure Other Thing Work
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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Everything People Prefer Some Talent Wally World
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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Continue Goal Matter Much Quality Quantity Think Towards
Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it’s part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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Develop Grit Job Most Say Student Survey Teacher Thing
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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Drive People Think Word Wrong
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Classroom Country Diploma Earn Effective Grittier Likely More People Place Student Teacher
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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Also Good Grit Most Parent Style Thing
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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Aspire Country Every Go Know Necessarily Think
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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Great Iteration Often Rejected Screw Some Something Thing

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