Duckworth was born in 1970, and is currently the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, with research interests in Developmental Psychology, Individual Differences, Positive Psychology and Behavior Change. She went on to create the Grit Scale, which aims to measure the construct of “grit” and how much you might have, or how you measure on the scale. Her first book—which has the same name as her TED Talk—came out in 2016 and was on The New York Times bestseller list for 21 weeks.
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This quote comes from Duckworth’s 2016 book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. As we mentioned before, it’s her first book and made quite a stir when it came on the scene. Its description calls it a “must-read book for anyone striving to succeed,” and it aims to answer the question, “Why do some people succeed and others fail?”
“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.”
In Duckworth’s TED Talk—which, again, shares the name of her book—she explains grit as:
She then goes into the concept of inherent abilities, saying, “talent doesn’t make you gritty.” She posits that many talented people don’t follow through on their commitments. And therefore, “grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.”
As she later says in her talk, a growth mindset is the best way to build grit in kids. The ability to learn isn’t fixed, and it can change with your efforts. So even if you’re not born talented or inherently a genius, you can learn to persevere and grow your abilities, and with continued effort, you can succeed. Kids with a growth mindset are more likely to persevere when they fail because “they don’t believe failure is a permanent condition,” Duckworth said in her talk, which is a point in her book.
So, this quote is basically saying that you typically can’t just skate through life and into an Ivy League college or into a CEO position based on just “talent” (and disregarding situations of nepotism or money, etc.). Expertise, without effort, is just potential you never lived up to. And if you don’t want to have regrets later in life, learning to persevere and stick things out even when times get tough is probably your best bet.
More Quotes from Angela Duckworth
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”“... As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”“I won’t just have a job; I’ll have a calling. I’ll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I’ll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.”“I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”“When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can’t be found, you guarantee they won.”Up Next:
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