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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?

Angela Duckworth

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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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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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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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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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