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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.

Angela Duckworth

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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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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 don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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