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So 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.

Angela Duckworth

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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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 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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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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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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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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it’s their life, but they have to choose something, and they can’t quit in the middle unless there’s a really good reason.
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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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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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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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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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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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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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