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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.

Angela Duckworth

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into 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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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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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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You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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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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The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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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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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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