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Grit (Angela Duckworth)

Is she a genius? This is the wrong question.
tags: genius

Rising to the occasion has almost nothing to do with talent.
page: 7
tags: talent

It's the chase, as much as the capture, that's gratifying. We can be satisfied being unsatisfied.
page: 8
tags: satisfaction

(Grit scale test)
page: 9
tags: grit

Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
page: 14
tags: potential

(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
tags: 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
tags: effort

Insights didn't come to him in lightning flashes, but he was, instead, a plodder (Darwin)
page: 21
tags: effort darwin

Darwin was someone who kept thinking about the same questions long after others would move on to different - no doubt easier - problems.
page: 22
tags: persistence darwin

Superlative performance is really just a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole.
page: 36
tags: performance skill

Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
page: 38
tags: greatness

(Read Nietzsche)
page: 39
tags: nietzsche

We don't want to watch them grow from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed (This is how we justify not trying. "Oh, he's a natural. I'll never compete with that.")
page: 39
tags: greatness

Great things are achieved by those whose thinking is active in one direction
page: 39
tags: greatness

Grit is doing what you love, but not just falling in love - staying in love.
page: 54
tags: persistence

Grit score: - overall: 4.1 - perseverance: 4.8 - passion: 3.4
page: 55
tags: grit

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
tags: effort talent achievement

You have to have a philosophy
page: 62
tags: drivers

One top-level professional goal is best. But to have that as the only life goal is extreme. Family matters to some, too, and there is no morally right single goal (career or parent)
page: 66
tags: goals

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
tags: effort skill potential

Purpose: my work is important - both to me and to others
page: 91
tags: purpose

Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening
page: 103
tags: passion

A low-level goal is a means to an end; a top-level goal is an end in itself. These are connected in a tree hierarchy.
page: 62
tags: goals

Polygenic - trait influenced by more than one gene.
page: 82
tags: traits

Rush a beginner and you'll bludgeon their budding interest. It's very, very hard to get that back once you do
page: 108
tags: interest

Some people get twenty years of experience while others get one year of experience, twenty times in a row.
page: 117
tags: experience

Barry Schwartz thinks what prevents young people from developing serious career interest is unrealistic expectations.
page: 102
tags: barry schwartz expectations

Interests are not triggered by introspection, they are triggered by interactions with the outside world
page: 104
tags: interest

Social multiplier effect: we grow more skilled by being around slightly smarter people. Stand next to the smartest person in the room.
page: 84
tags: growth

Repeat until conscious incompetence becomes unconscious competence (break programming down into its component skills, then practice each one)
page: 123
tags: skill

Beginners find novelty in something they haven't seen before. Experts find novelty in nuance.
page: 114
tags: novelty nuance expertise beginner

Continuous improvement is not looking backward with dissatisfaction. It's looking forward and wanting to grow.
page: 118
tags: improvement

The initial discovery of an interest often goes unnoticed by the discoverer
page: 104
tags: interest

Deliberate practice is a behavior and flow is an experience. Gritty people do more deliberate practice and experience more flow.
page: 131
tags: deliberate practice flow

To practice command of language, translate poetry into prose and prose into poetry
page: 124
tags: language

Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance
page: 132
tags: deliberate practice preparation flow performance

(cognitive psychology)
page: 118
tags: psychology

You develop a taste for hard work as you experience the rewards of your labor, making deliberate practice more enjoyable. (It's not the practice that is enjoyable, but the knowledge of the rewarding outcome)
page: 136
tags: hard work reward

Different kinds of positive experience: the thrill of getting better is one, and the ecstasy of performing your best is another.
page: 137
tags: experience

Deliberate practice: - A clearly-defined stretch goal - Full concentration and effort - Immediate and informative feedback - Repetition with reflection and refinement
page: 137
tags: deliberate practice

Wishing that you could do things better is extremely common during learning
page: 139
tags: learning

When you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do.
page: 139
tags: practice

Book - Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
page: 139
tags: mason currey

There is no more miserable human being, than the one for whom the beginning of every bit of work must be decided anew each day.
page: 140
tags: work planning

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
tags: effort failure

Purpose: the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
page: 146
tags: purpose

Hedonic vs eudaimonic happiness
page: 147
tags: happiness

Job: necessity of life; career: stepping stone for other jobs; calling: my work makes the world a better place
page: 150
tags: calling career

Looking for daily meaning as well as daily bread
page: 151
tags: meaning

How you see your work is more important than your job title.
page: 152
tags: perception

A calling is not some fully formed thing that you find. Ask how what you do connects to other people, to the bigger picture, and how it can be an expression of your deepest values.
page: 153
tags: calling values

Leaders and employees who keep both personal and prosocial interests in mind do better in the long run than those who are 100% selfishly motivated (and vice versa; you need both)
page: 160
tags: social intelligence

1) discover a problem that needs solving and 2) that you personally can make a difference
page: 162
tags: purpose

Improve your work by 1) Reflect on how the work you're doing can make a positive contribution to society. 2) Think about how, in small but meaningful ways, you can change your current work to enhance it's connection to your core values 3) Finding inspiration in a purposeful role model. "Imagine yourself 15 years from now. What do you think will be most important to you then?" "Can you think of someone whose life inspires you to be a better person? Why?"
page: 166
tags: meaning

It isn't suffering that leads to helplessness, it's suffering you think you can't control
page: 172
tags: suffering helplessness control

Suffering without control reliably produces symptoms of clinical depression, including changes in appetite and physical activity, sleep problems, and poor concentration
page: 173
tags: suffering depression control

Optimists & pessimists are equally likely to encounter bad events. The difference is that optimists habitually search for temporary and specific causes of their suffering, whereas pessimists assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame.
page: 174
tags: pessimism optimism suffering

Don't think in terms of disappointment. Think that everything that happens is something that can be learned from.
page: 175
tags: learning

The same objective event can lead to very different subjective interpretations
page: 176
tags: objective subjective

When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop, you don't.
page: 178
tags: continuous improvement

Failure is a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed.
page: 179
tags: failure ability

Each person carries around in their minds private theories about how the world works.
page: 179
tags: worldview viewpoint

Having a fixed mindset - that talent is innate and unchanging - make roadbumps much more difficult to manage.
page: 180
tags: fixed mindset

Watch for mismatches between words and actions
page: 184
tags: action

Name your inner pessimist
page: 184
tags: pessimism

A fixed mindset about ability leads to pessimistic explanations of adversity, which in turn leads to both giving up on challenges and avoiding them in the first place. In contrast, a growth mindset leads to optimistic ways of explaining adversity which in turn leads to perseverance and seeking out new challenges that will ultimately make you even stronger
page: 191
tags: ability adversity challenge perseverance

growth mindset > optimistic self-talk > perseverance over adversity
page: 192
tags: adversity growth perseverance

Think what you can do to boost each of the above steps
page: 192
tags: vague

There's never a time in life that the brain is completely fixed. It changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge
page: 192
tags: brain challenge

You're acting in a parentlike way if you're asking for guidance on how to best bring faith, interest, practice, purpose, and hope in the people you care for. Y axis: Supportive/Unsupportive; X axis: Demanding/Undemanding. Supporting/Demanding = Wise; Unspportive/Demanding = Authoritarian; Unsupportive/Undemanding = Neglectful; Supportive/Undemanding = Permissive
page: 199
tags: parenting

Teens with warm, respectful, and demanding parents earned higher grades, were self-reliant, suffered from less anxiety and depression, and were less likely to engage in delinquent behavior
page: 213
tags: parenting

Don't pass judgment on how other parents treat their children. In most cases, you don't have enough context to understand how the child interprets the exchange, and, at the end of the day, it's the child's experience that really matters
page: 213
tags: parenting

Parenting assessment here. See book notebook #1
page: 213
tags: parenting

You can make a difference/impact on someone's life just by caring about them and getting to know what's going on
page: 222
tags: interest

Goeff Canada TED Talk: Harlem Children's Zone
page: 238
tags: ted

Hard Thing Rule 1) Everyone, including Mom and Dad, has to do a hard thing 2) You can quit, but not until a natural stopping point: tuition cycle, season over 3) You get to pick your hard thing, nobody else 4) In high school, must commit to at least one activity: something new or something they're already doing, for two years minimum
page: 241
tags: one hard thing

The way we do things around here and why eventually the way I do things and why
page: 247
tags: culture

I'm not going to fail because I don't care or I didn't try
page: 250
tags: failure

Thinking of yourself as someone who is able to overcome tremendous adversity often leads to behavior that confirms that self-conception
page: 252
tags: adversity

There is no effort without error and shortcomings
page: 254
tags: error effort

Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better, not reason to quit
page: 254
tags: excuses mistakes quitting

Talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness
page: 255
tags: talent investment greatness

George Bernard Shaw: "The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
page: 257
tags: george bernard shaw grievances complaining fortune

The origin of great leadership begins with the respect of the commander for his subordinates
page: 258
tags: leadership

Our opponent creates challenges that help us become our best selves
page: 262
tags: opposition challenge

Being early is about respect, the details, excellence
page: 267
tags: punctuality

Complacency has its charms, but none worth trading for the fulfillment of realizing your potential
page: 271
tags: complacency potential

Finishing whatever you begin without exception is a good way to missing opportunities to start different, possibly better, things.
page: 272
tags: finishing opportunities

Intrapersonal character: grit, self-control, self-management skills. "resume virtues"
page: 273
tags: character self-control grit self-management

Interpersonal character: gratitude, social intelligence, self-control over emotions such as anger. Help you get along with and provide assistance to other people. "moral character" "eulogy virtues", how people remember you.
page: 274
tags: gratitude social intelligence self-control character

Intelligence character: Curiosity and zest, encourage active and open engagement with the world of ideas
page: 274
tags: character intelligence curiosity engagement

Plurality of character operates against any one virtue being uniquely important.
page: 274
tags: character virtue

You're not practicing piano to be Mozart
page: 275
tags: practice

To be gritty is to fall down seven times and rise eight
page: 275
tags: grit