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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

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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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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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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 are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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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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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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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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