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Grit:
…no matter the domain, the highly successful had a kind of ferocious determination… They not only had determination, they had direction.
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Grit:
…talent is no guarantee of grit.
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Grit:
Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
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Grit:
…why do we assume that it is our talent, rather than our effort, that will decide where we end up in the long run?
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Grit:
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.
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Grit:
By shining our spotlight on talent, we risk leaving everything else in the shadows…
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Grit:
…the focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort.
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Grit:
…mythologizing natural talent lets us all off the hook. It lets us relax into the status quo.
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Grit:
Talent – how fast we improve in skill – absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculation twice, not once.
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Grit:
…in doing something over and over again, something that was never natural becomes almost second nature.
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