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A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Achievement Dancing Grit Work

Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical realities of surviving in the real world were far more important than any person living a sheltered life such as my own could imagine. I was warned that overly idealistic dreams of finding something I loved could in fact be a breadcrumb trail into poverty and disappointment.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Effort Grit Work

...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Grit Passion Perseverance Tenacity

...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't...Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Interests Life Experiences Passion

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.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Day Wake Up Want

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.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Good Style Grit

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Thinking Selfish Think

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, 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.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Time Good School

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. 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.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth School Looking Why

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Team People Environment

Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Pain Giving Yourself

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - 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.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Character Empathy

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Work Matter Things

Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn't feel like you're stupid when you're frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, 'I can't do this,' but you should say, 'That's great.' That means you really have the potential to learn something there.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Great Stupid Yourself

We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

~ Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth Future Grit You
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