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Angela Duckworth

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    For a lot of people, passion is synonymous with infatuation or obsession. But in interviews about what it takes to succeed, high achievers often talk about commitment of a different kind. Rather than intensity, what comes up again and again in their remarks is the idea of consistency over time.

    Passion should be consistent

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    Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
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    But everyone has problems—even Google.
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    We knew that people instinctively gravitate toward moments that feel like fresh starts when they want to make change happen.
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    the power of the New Year
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    We go from “student” to “working professional”; “renter” to “homeowner”; “single” to “married”; “adult” to “parent”; “New Yorker” to “Californian”; “denizen of the 90s” to “twenty-first-century American” all in the flip of a switch. And labels matter to our behavior.
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    “I mean, it was the end of the century, right? This was a reset switch for humanity.”
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    With the shift to a new year, it’s almost as if past attempts to stay off social media, earn As in school, be a better colleague, and eat healthier can be dismissed as the failures of another person
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    Last year you couldn’t cut it at work or failed to quit smoking, but “that was the old me,” you think, “and this is the new me.”
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    Hengchen, Jason, and I suspected that if people really felt that they were new and improved, it could, in some cases, be enough to help them overcome a meaningful obstacle to change.
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