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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?
Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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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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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
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You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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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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This is hard. This is fun.
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Becoming is better than being
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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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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
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Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
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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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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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More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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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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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
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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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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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