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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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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!
Carol S. Dweck
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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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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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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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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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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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.
Carol S. Dweck
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
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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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The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
Carol S. Dweck
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.
Carol S. Dweck
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Carol S. Dweck
This is hard. This is fun.
Carol S. Dweck
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.
Carol S. Dweck
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.
Carol S. Dweck
Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
Carol S. Dweck
Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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