Sublime

my view is that the primary motivation for doing effortful deliberate practice is to improve your skill.

realized that success is not so much how close you come to perfection as how much you overcome along the way.

If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.

Character is what allows you to reach the top and stay there.

Tendency not to abandon tasks from mere changeability. Not seeking something fresh because of novelty. Not “looking for a change.”

As a graduate student just beginning to probe the psychology of success, I was interviewing leaders in business, art, athletics, journalism, academia, medicine, and law: Who are the people at the very top of your field? What are they like? What do you think makes them special?

Higher scores on purpose correlate with higher scores on the Grit Scale.

I like to think of a growth mindset this way: Some of us believe, deep down, that people really can change.