 |
Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future.
|
169 |
 |
…there are different kinds of positive experience: the thrill of getting better is one, and the ecstasy of performing at your best is another.
|
137 |
 |
Rather than focus on what they already do well, experts strive to improve specific weaknesses.
|
121 |
 |
…skill is not the same thing as achievement…
|
51 |
 |
Talent – how fast we improve in skill – absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculation twice, not once.
|
42 |
 |
The ‘naturalness bias’ is a hidden prejudice against those who’ve achieved what they have because they worked for it, and a hidden preference for those whom we think arrived at their place in life because they’re naturally talented.
|
25 |
 |
Leadership behavior is not as vital as membership behavior.
|
276 |
 |
Results are achieved when members of a system collectively choose to move in a certain direction. It is this act of choice that is critical.
|
276 |
 |
At the moment of commitment, the institution becomes ours to create, and in that act of committing, we can find our freedom.
|
274 |
 |
We work hard at managing, and at times manipulating, those who have power over us.
|
272 |
