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1. "What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character." ~ Paul Tough
2. "tend to react to negative events by explaining them as permanent, personal, and pervasive.7" ~ Paul Tough
3. "Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again." ~ Paul Tough
4. "the child of a supermom who gets lots of extra tutoring and one-on-one support is going to do way better than an average well-loved child. But what Blair's and Evans's research suggests is that regular good parenting—being helpful and attentive during a game of Jenga—can make a profound difference for a child's future prospects." ~ Paul Tough
5. "Every one of us in Teach for America was working so hard and creating results in our classrooms, but if our kids didn't go on to graduate from college, who the hell cared?" ~ Paul Tough
6. "the key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress." ~ Paul Tough
7. "The idea of building grit and building self-control is that you get that through failure," Randolph told me. "And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything." ~ Paul Tough
8. "Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects—physical, psychological, and neurological." ~ Paul Tough
9. "Heckman discovered that when you consider all kinds of important future outcomes—annual income, unemployment rate, divorce rate, use of illegal drugs—GED recipients look exactly like high-school dropouts, despite the fact that they have earned this supposedly valuable extra credential, and despite the fact that they are, on average, considerably more intelligent than high-school dropouts." ~ Paul Tough
10. "We "activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies," Sapolsky writes, "but we turn it on for months on end, worrying about mortgages, relationships, and promotions." ~ Paul Tough
11. "Any time you need to use the term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal in order to make your point, you've got trouble." ~ Paul Tough
12. "Think about it," Spiegel said. "Remember, when I ask you a question, you don't have to answer right away. But you do have to be right." ~ Paul Tough

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