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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: About Answer Ask Build Building Day Ethic Every Every Day Grit Honest How Keep Kids Know Knows Little Long Long Run Me Most Motivated Parents Run Science Shocking Solid Teach Teachers Them Thing Work Work Ethic

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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.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Although Behavior Important Important Thing Kids Model Most Most Important Thing Only Parents Should The Most Important The Only Thing Thing Want

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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Academically Attention Control Game Happening Hard Imagine Kids Know Over Some Time Want Well

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When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Me People Reflex Say Something Tell Visceral Yes I Can

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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Effort Everybody How How Much Knows Mattered Matters Me Much

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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

Topics: Any Available Cell Cell Phone Conventional Did Ended Extra First Gave Good Kids Lunch Math Novice Obvious Phone School Stayed Teacher Teaching Things Think Time Unusual Up Were Would Year

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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. 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.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Because Commitments Competing Daughter Discovered Done Finish Fulfilling Good Good Thing Her Kids Like Made Me Meet Season Second Sense She Started Teach Thing Track Very

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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

Topics: Character Curiosity Daughters Develop Developing Emotional Empathy Get Going Grit Idea Intelligence Itself Just Know My Own Odds Own Punishments Rewards Seems Things Think Through Very Want You I Think

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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: About Anything Because Genes Lot Spend Them Thinking Time

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I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: About Achievement Bored Day Even Every Every Day Expertise Fairly Get Gratified Life More Much My Life Never Now Psychology Questions Related Say Scientific Set Small Something Thinking Those Up Wake Wake Up You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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