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Duckworth: Teaching grit cannot fix severe systemic educational barriers
“If you are asking questions about, like, you know, underachievement and, you know, closing the achievement gap, etc., and you know, the antidote that's offered is like, well, we should teach kids about growth mindset and grit and agency. Then you might be over…”
Duckworth: Most people satisfice, while top performers maximize without end
“I think that satisficing is a description of most people, and maximizing without end is, is a description of the people that I study.”
Duckworth: Develop passions through iterative experimentation rather than following them
“I would say to you, like, if you change the verb from follow to develop, right, it gives you a little bit of a clue as to what you need to do, which is you need to like Start dating some things, right? And then like, you know, go on a second date with the ones…”
Duckworth: Overcoming difficult struggles is the primary source of human confidence
“The number one thing is that people develop confidence When they have struggled to overcome something and they have come out victorious.”
Duckworth: Personality and situation reciprocally shape and reinforce each other
“What really your personality and your situation are like, it's like a conversation where the personality of the person actually changes the situation. You know, conscientious people, like, select into jobs that require conscientiousness, but then the situation…”
Duckworth: Elite athletes like Kobe and Brady intentionally maintain underdog mindsets
“Some of the most successful people, right? Like the you know, people like Kobe Bryant, like were able to maintain an underdog mindset or even Tom Brady, right? Long past the time where they, you could actually legitimately say that you're an underdog. They are…”
Duckworth: People who actively seek feedback will reliably resolve their own problems
“Shane, I really truly believe that if somebody is eager for feedback, actively solicits feedback, tries to listen to the feedback, learn something from feedback. Those are the people I never worry about, right? Like, I've had students where they're like, reall…”
Duckworth: Apparent laziness in kids often stems from lacking small mastery wins
“And if your kid is like driving you nuts because they are not taking risks and they seem to be, you know, afraid of failure and that, by the way, that sometimes looks like laziness, right? Even though it's underneath the surface, not at all laziness. Ask yours…”
Duckworth: Young people struggle more with direction than determination
“And I find that many, many young people are struggling much more with the direction in their life than the determinations. That they need to bring to that pursuit.”
Duckworth: Pursue work that feels effortless to you but drudgery to others
“So, so the idea of doing things that are playful for you, but drudgery for others in my class, the passion section of my grit lab course is called choose easy. And then there's another section called work hard, but I think that, you know, doing something that …”
Duckworth: People quit either from lost goal value or lost confidence
“So if you ask the question, like, when do people quit? I think it's either because they, the value of the goal goes down for whatever reason, or their belief that they can achieve it.”
Duckworth: Deliberate practice requires intention, total concentration, and feedback
“So the high quality practice that Anders called deliberate practice had these three essential elements, any of which being missing, then you're not doing deliberate practice in Anders' view. The first is that there's this Kind of like hyper intentionality abou…”
Duckworth: Highly successful people usually have a few inviolable rules
“The reason I'm studying it is because I do think that very successful people have usually a small number of fairly inviolable rules and also habits.”
Duckworth: Personal rules probably work only when self-authored, not assigned
“I think that the rule on rules is probably that you should make up your own rules as opposed to like somebody exogenously handing you one.”
Duckworth: Decisions follow either logic of consequence or logic of appropriateness
“When you are operating according to logic consequence, the three questions are, what are the costs? What are the benefits? What are the probabilities? When you are operating according to the logic of appropriateness, the three questions are, what situation is …”