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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

Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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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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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 don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about 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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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
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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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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.

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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.

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