"I’d like to propose that parents who want to cultivate grit in their children abide by the Hard Thing Rule and, in addition, the Fun Thing Rule. **Ask your kids to do something that will teach them, through experience, deliberate practice and resilience**. "But **also make sure they’re doing things that they find interesting and enjoyable**, even if it doesn’t seem that they could ever lead to anything more serious. "Why? Because the ultimate goal is to grow up to develop a calling—a fun thing that is also a hard thing" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[hard-thing-rule]], [[parenting]], [[curiosity]], [[habits]], [[resilience]], **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]