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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.
Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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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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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
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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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...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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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
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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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