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Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.
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We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.
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When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
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You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
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Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
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Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
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The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
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Becoming is better than being
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
Carol S. Dweck
Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
Carol S. Dweck
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.
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It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.
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