Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHThe focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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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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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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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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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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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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Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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