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

Angela Duckworth

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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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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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 and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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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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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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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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One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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