Angela Duckworth Quotes

#1. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.

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#2. A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The

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#3. Which is more important to success - talent or effort? Americans

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#4. Stop reading so much and go think.

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#5. You can't simply will yourself to like things, either. As Jeff Bezos has observed, 'One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves.

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#6. Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

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#7. The highly accomplished were paragons of perseverance.

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#8. When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can't be found, you guarantee they won

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#9. Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.

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#10. Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.

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#11. Failure is not a permanent condition.

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#12. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't. With

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#13. Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They'd rather show the highlight of what they've become.

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#14. I learned a lesson I'd never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them.

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#15. No whining. No complaining. No excuses.

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#16. Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.

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#17. Well okay, that didn't go so well, but I guess I will just carry on.'

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#18. At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.

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#19. In other words, we want to believe that Mark Spitz was born to swim in a way that none of us were and that none of us could. We don't want to sit on the pool deck and watch him progress from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed. We prefer mystery to mundanity.

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#20. callings have little to do with formal job descriptions. In fact, she believes that just

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#21. I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.

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#22. most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.

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#23. It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:

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#24. as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.

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#25. figure out when and where you're most comfortable doing deliberate practice. Once you've made your selection, do deliberate practice then and there every day. Why? Because routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard. A

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#26. whatever your occupation, you can maneuver within your job description - adding, delegating, and customizing what you do to match your interests and values.

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#27. Thing Rule: You can quit. But you can't quit until the season is over, the tuition payment is up, or some other "natural" stopping point has arrived. You must, at least for the interval to which you've committed yourself, finish whatever you begin. In

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#28. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.

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#29. Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.

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#30. But if, instead, you define genius as working toward excellence, ceaselessly, with every element of your being - then, in fact, my dad is a genius, and so am I, and so is Coates, and, if you're willing, so are you.

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