
How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth
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How to Be Successful at the Highest Level
Grit is a sustained, long term series of actions in your life in pursuit of goals that you care about. You do not have to know what the end goals are at the start of that journey. I had no idea i was goingto endd up in anything like ted. And when i went to graduate school, i said to my husband, don't let me quit for ten years. Why did i say that aloud? It's more important than having a desire and knowing it all out. But i will stand by my claim that when people do great things, those great things take a very long time to do - they're very, very hard.
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