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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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This is hard. This is fun.
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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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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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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 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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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
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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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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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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
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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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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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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
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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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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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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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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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