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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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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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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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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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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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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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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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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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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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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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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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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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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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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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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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