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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

Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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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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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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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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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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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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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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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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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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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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