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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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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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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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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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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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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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This is hard. This is fun.
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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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This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.
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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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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
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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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You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
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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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Becoming is better than being
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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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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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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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