{"author":"Angela Duckworth","author_id":"Angela+Duckworth","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["great","stupid","yourself "],"id":30606,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["good","style","grit "],"id":31375,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["time","good","school "],"id":47234,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["future","grit","you "],"id":91976,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["achievement","dancing","grit","work"],"id":128092,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["work","matter","things "],"id":129847,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["day","wake up","want "],"id":176146,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["pain","giving","yourself "],"id":178027,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["interests","life-experiences","passion"],"id":217887,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["grit","passion","perseverance","tenacity"],"id":226646,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}