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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

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
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
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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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
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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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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Adult Country Girl Scale Score Thousand
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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Better Define Rate Something Talent Try
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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Drive People Think Word Wrong
I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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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
You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Aptitude Effort Get Good Matter Nobody Something
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
Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Call Experience Life Maturity Own Principle Pschllogistic
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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Awesome Being Competent Free Human Motivation Really Theory Thing Three Want

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