Angela Duckworth Quotes

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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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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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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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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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort.
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I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things… they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you’re going.
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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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It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
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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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I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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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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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 think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence.
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Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let’s get to work on them.
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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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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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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 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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