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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

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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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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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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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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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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.
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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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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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