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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.

Angela Duckworth

There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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 know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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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.
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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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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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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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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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