Carol S. Dweck Quotes

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In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Carol S. Dweck

Thinking, Challenges, Growth

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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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Accomplishment, Effort, Matter

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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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Smart, Quality, World

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.15, Random House

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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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Wise, Mean, Giving

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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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Children, Mistake, Giving

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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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Mistake, Growth, Trying

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.235, Random House

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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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Writing, People, Growth

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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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Trying, Labels, Information

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You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

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Wise, Growth, Mind

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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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Passion, Growth, Mindset

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

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Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

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Wise, Achievement, Growth

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.66, Random House

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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? 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. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

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Self Esteem, Passion, People

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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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Children, Mistake, Parent

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.176, Random House

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Becoming is better than being

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Growth, Becoming, Growth Mindset

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.25, Random House

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Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

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People, Future Success, Exceptional

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Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

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Focus, Achievement, Effort

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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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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Views, Years, Twenties

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.6, Random House

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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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Get Better, Waste, Growth Mindset

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

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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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Wise, Mean, People

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.70, Random House

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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

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Wise, Teaching, Growth

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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.

Carol S. Dweck

Winning, Best Effort, Growth

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.207, Random House

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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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Thinking, Idols, People

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.90, Random House

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Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

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Challenges, Growth, Brain

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.53, Random House

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It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

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People, Ends

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.5, Random House

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You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

Carol S. Dweck

Hard Work, Hardest, Things You Love

Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.43, Random House

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