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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.

Angela Duckworth

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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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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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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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building 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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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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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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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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