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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
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Carol S. Dweck
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 17
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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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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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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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