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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

People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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 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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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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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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There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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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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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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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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