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This is hard. This is fun.
Becoming is better than being
What did you try hard at today?
Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
Unproductive effort is never a good thing.
Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
When I went into psychology, there were very few women.
Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.
Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.
I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.
You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
Everybody who's been successful has gotten lots of help and input from many, many people.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.
Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.
We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.
Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.
We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.
The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.
This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try new things.
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
The loudest voices both in the U.S. and abroad often are those that preach hatred and exclusion. But hatred and exclusion will not bring employment.
Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone. They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't I have enough?'
Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.
Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.