I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHWhen I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older – even if we can’t pull all-nighters like we used to.
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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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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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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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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.
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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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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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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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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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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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What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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