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This is hard. This is fun.
Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
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I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.
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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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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
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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.'
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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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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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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Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
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Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
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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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If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.
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