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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.

Angela Duckworth

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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Big Down Get Grit Knock Lose Point Prevail Various Way
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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Accomplish Challenge Commencement Older One Person Speech Talk Wise Wiser Young
Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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Great Iteration Often Rejected Screw Some Something Thing
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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But Character Develop Emotion Empathy Idea Intelligence Think
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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Aspire Country Every Go Know Necessarily Think
The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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Although Behaviour Do Important Kid Model Paren Thing
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Anything Genes Lot Spent Them Think
Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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Intelligence Many Matter Measure Other Thing Work
Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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Across Follow Longitudinal Middle People Thousand School Shown Study Time
Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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Awesome Drive Encourage Environment Qquashed Soccer Something Well Wonderful
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Childhood Early Generally Grow Up Know Too
Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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Everything People Prefer Some Talent Wally World
I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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Adequate Child Constrained Education Orientated Ote Person Policy Study Taken Whole
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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Adult Country Girl Scale Score Thousand
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Grit Life Living Marathon Spirit

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