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Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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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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When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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It is important to realize that the process of ‘fostering’ a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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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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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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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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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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