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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.

Angela Duckworth

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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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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I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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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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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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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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Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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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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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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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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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
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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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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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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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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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