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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.

Angela Duckworth

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Become Deteriorate Eyesight Hip Impulse Kinder Knee Less Moody More Our
What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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Consult Demand Job Management More People Perseverance Reliability Teach
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
Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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After Again People Some Try
Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Control Grit Relate Same Self Thing
If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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Continue Goal Matter Much Quality Quantity Think Towards
I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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Finish Force Important Message Needed Occasionally Parent Practice Remind Send Thing Think Very
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Building Girl Know Little Most Science Shock Thing
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
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Hold Symbolic Think Use Value Word
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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Effort Grit Just Stamina World
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Good Novice Obvious Teacher Thing
Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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Answer Build Day Every Grit Honest Kid Parent Solid Teacher Work
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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Classroom Country Diploma Earn Effective Grittier Likely More People Place Student Teacher
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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Bored Do Expert New Novelty Nuance Substituting
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

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