I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHSo when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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 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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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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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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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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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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Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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