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Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.

Angela Duckworth

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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
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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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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it’s part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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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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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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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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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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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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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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