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If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

~Angela Duckworth

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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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There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: About Figure Least Life Lot Makes Out Path Resistance Same Same Time Sense Something Struggling Taking Things Through Time Which Worth

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Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

~Angela Duckworth

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There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Awesome Beings Belong Choice Choose Competent Free Human Human Beings Motivation Really Theory Things Three Want

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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?

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Always Come Dance Does Domain Ease Every Expertise Expresses Fluency Itself Know Mastery Mathematical Proof Question Really See Stage Think True Where Whether Which Writing You I Think

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It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.

~Angela Duckworth

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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

~Angela Duckworth

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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