Grit
A book by Angela Duckworth exploring the power of passion and perseverance in achieving long-term goals.
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"Angela Duckworth, who wrote the book on grit, was on the talk and she was saying the school system hired me and they wanted to make the students more gritty. She said, 'Your school system doesn't work not because the kids aren't gritty, because yo..."
More from Bill Burnett →"He was in Angela Duckworth's Grit book, strangely."
More from Steve Young →"Obviously she's most famous for grit, passion and perseverance. And what she was telling her students was she was basically saying, 'If I could redo grit a little bit, I think I'd put a little bit more on the passion side.'"
More from David Epstein →"Angela Duckworth who wrote Grit has said recently if she could write it again, she'd put passion way above perseverance because she says perseverance without passion is suffering."
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"Angela Duckworth, I think we talked about it, has this book called grit and it's also been proven that grit is more likely to make you succeed than IQ"
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"After I wrote Grit, I first was disappointed. I was disappointed candidly that I was like, oh, this didn't change as many lives as I thought."
More from Angela Duckworth →+5 more mentions from Angela
"I recently reread that book and I wanted to know whether I changed my mind. And you know what? I don't disagree with a word in Grit. I really don't..."
"I haven't given up on grit. In fact, I think the final common path to greatness is always going to be a path of consistent effort."
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