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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

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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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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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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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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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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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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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$Angela Duckworth Quote - I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.$

I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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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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