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How to Turn Grit Into a Lifelong Habit | Angela Duckworth | The TED Interview

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The Importance of Persistence

There are so many cultural references to this. It's as if at some level society feels an important urge that this message has to be instilled in kids, I think of Jimmy Cliff's wonderful song. Well, can we actually edge in a little bit of luck here? There is a complaint about this grit narrative that says, wait a second, what about good luck? And what about bad luck? The human mind is not very good at taking in lots of things at once.

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