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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

Angela Duckworth

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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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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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