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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

Topics: Doing Feel Feelings Frustrated Great Learn Learning Like Means Might Negative Potential Really Say Should Something Stupid Typical You Yourself

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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.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Actively Cannot Deepen Discover Interest Interested Not Interested Something Will You Your Yourself

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I do feel it's hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I'm trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Awful Being Energy Feel Give Great Hard Human Human Being Humble Modest Narcissistic People Prizes Telling Trying Wanting You

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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it's their life, but they have to choose something, and they can't quit in the middle unless there's a really good reason. There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don't want to let kids quit during a valley.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Because Believe Choose Going Good Good Reason Kids Life Middle Peaks Quit Really Reason Should Something Unless Valley Valleys Want You I Believe

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There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Been Both Challenge Genetic Grit Inherited Learned Nature Nurture Often Says Science Studies Think

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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Hold Symbolic Think Use Values Words I Think

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One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they're not just in love for a day or a week. People who are really gritty - they're still interested.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Day Gritty Interested Just Keep Love Loving One Thing People Really Still Thing True Week Who

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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. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Doing Eventually Fascinating Feel Few Few People Find Going Important Interested Keep Keep Going Life Like Merely Most Other People Personally Really Something Too Very Who Whole

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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.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Accomplished Adult Challenges Commencement Even High High School Middle Middle School Older Person School Speeches Talking Who Wiser You Young Younger

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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Bored Experts Never Novelty Nuance Why

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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