Growth Mindset Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Wise, Mean, Giving

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Achievement, Growth

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

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• Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?

  Carol S. Dweck

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

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• A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Self, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.109, Random House

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Next Day, Growth, Useless

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Smart, Quality, World

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

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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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• 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

  Children, Mistake, Giving

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• Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Growth, Problem

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.154, Random House

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• This is hard. This is fun.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Fun, Growth

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• Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Teaching, Growth

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• Becoming is better than being

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Becoming, 1960s

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

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Idols, People

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

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Personality, Growth, Research

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• The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Growth, Development

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Writing, People, Growth

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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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Bumps, Way

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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

  Children, Math, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.179, 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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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