14 quotes found
“Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.”
“Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.”
“ see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams)”
“… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams)”
“You decide that, rather than trying to talk out of the fixed mindset [to your kid], you have to live the growth mindset, you have to live the growth mindset. AT the dinner table each evening, you a...”
“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, thei...”
“What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than th...”
“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...”
“We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it do you never want to grow? Next time youre tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.”
“I expected differences among children in how they coped with the difficulty, but I saw something I never expected.Confronted with the hard puzzles, one then-year-old boy pulled up his chair, rubbed...”
“All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, a...”
“Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesnt mean that others cant do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.”
“…You decide that, rather than trying to talk out of the fixed mindset [to your kid], you have to live the growth mindset, you have to live the growth mindset. AT the dinner table each evening, you ...”
“Just because someone 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.”
