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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

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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You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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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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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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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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 do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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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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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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