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I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
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effort
(Consider the importance of effort) When teaching a lesson that fails to gel, could it be that the struggling student needed to struggle just a bit longer?
page: 17
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effort
As a teacher, it is my responsibility to figure out how to sustain effort - both the student's and my own - just a bit longer.
page: 17
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effort
Insights didn't come to him in lightning flashes, but he was, instead, a plodder (Darwin)
page: 21
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effort
darwin
Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them. Effort not only builds skill, it makes skill productive. Effort factors into the formula for achievement twice. Talent only once.
page: 42
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effort
talent
achievement
Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't.
page: 51
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effort
skill
potential
We point out their (children's) mistakes. We frown. Our cheeks flush. We teach our children embarrassment, fear, shame when they fail. Let them fail. Encourage them to try, and fail again.
page: 141
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effort
failure
There is no effort without error and shortcomings
page: 254
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error
effort
Afraid you're not good at something? Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. You can't know without a lot of effort. If you have the passion for it, put in the effort and see.
page: 107
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passion
effort
Flexible Optimism: continually assessing our abilities to achieve a goal, and intensifying or reducing our efforts accordingly. When practiced, we see more opportunities for success, but don't overstate our abilities. and we don't overestimate the amount of control we have over the outcome.
page: 68
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optimism
self-assessment
goals
effort
opportunity
success
ability
control
By turning a real problem into a voluntary obstacle, we can activate more genuine interest, curiosity, motivation, effort, and optimism than we can otherwise. We can change our real-life behaviors in the context of a fictional game precisely because there isn't any negative pressure surrounding the decision to change.
page: 311
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motivation
effort
optimism
change
obstacles