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Raising Resilient Kids with Angela Duckworth

A Bit of Optimism

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Two Things That I Can't Tell You About the University of Pennsylvania

i cannot ask you to work evenings or week ends. You will never ever make it an academia if you do that, he says. The choice has to be made for the right reasons - i don't like working hard on things i don't want to do. If it's something that in some way shap perform, contributes to the greater good, then i find myself working odd hours or odd times and giving up a week end but it doesn't feel like work because i really, really want to do it. It might be hard, it might be stressful, but i wants to do it, not that i feel that i have to do it."

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