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

Angela Duckworth

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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Come Country Day Dream Everything Like One People Person True Want Wildest
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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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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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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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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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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Excellence No Shortcut True
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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Develop Grit Job Most Say Student Survey Teacher Thing
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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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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All Come Country Develop Drag Need Actively Once Passion People Person
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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Boredom Conscious Definition Emotion Interest Self
People who are really gritty – they’re still interested.
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Gretty Interest People Realy Still
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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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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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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