Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes V

-What do these grit paragons have in common? Daily rituals. Hours and hours of solitary deliberate practice.
-Purpose means the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
-Pleasure is moderately important no matter how gritty you are.
-Higher scores on purpose correlate with higher scores on the Grit scale.
-Purpose is a tremendously powerful source of motivation.
-How you see your work is more important that your job title.
-Michael's passion is well-being through mindfulness. It took him years to integrate his personal interest in mindfulness with the other-centered purpose of helping people lead healthier, happier lives. Only when interest and purpose melded did he feel like he was doing what he had been put on this planet to do.
-Leaders and employees who keep both personal and prosocial interests in mind do better in the long run than those who are 100 percent selfishly motivated.
-It is not suffering that leads to hopelessness. It is suffering you think you can't control.
-I got up again and kept fighting.
-Optimists are just as likely to encounter bad events as pessimists. Where they diverge is in their explanations: optimists habitually search for temporary and specific causes of their suffering, whereas pessimists assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame.
-I don't think in terms of disappointment. Everything that happens is something I can learn from.
-She suspected it was not just a long string of failures that made these children pessimistic, but rather their core beliefs about success and learning.
-They learned to interpret failure as a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed.
-People develop theories about themselves and the world, and it determines what they do.
-When you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.
-Keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out.
-If you experience adversity that you overcome on your own during your youth, you develop a different way of dealing with adversity later on.
-Intelligence, or any other talent, can improve with effort. The brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge.
-Rhonda eventually earned a PhD in mathematics and, after seventy-nine of her eighty applications for a faculty position were rejected, she took a job at the single university that made her an offer.
-You actually develop the ability to do mathematics. Don't give up!