Quotes from Carol S. Dweck

I changed it because of my work. One day my doctoral student, Mary Bandura, and I were trying to understand why some students were so caught up in proving their ability, while others could just let go and learn. Suddenly we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

Since this was a kind of IQ test, you might say that praising ability lowered the students' IQs. And that praising their effort raised them.

Was it Mozart's musical ability or the fact that he worked till his hands were deformed? Was

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person. Encourage them to learn new things.

You don't have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who wouldn't be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or loved one -- these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.

Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving. And this is exactly what we find in the champions.

Resumiendo, el talento natural no analiza sus defectos, ni los elimina entrenando o practicando. La mera idea de ser imperfecto es aterradora.

few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

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

Think about someone you know who is steeped in the fixed mindset. Think about how they're always trying to prove themselves and how they're supersensitive about being wrong or making mistakes. Did you ever wonder why they were this way? (Are you this way?) Now you can begin to understand why.

Learning the nuts and bolts of the company could later give you a big advantage. All of our top growth-mindset CEOs knew their companies from top to bottom, inside out, and upside down.

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.

I asked myself what I would like to be able to say at the end of my life's, and it was this: I want to be able to say that I kept my eyes open, faced my issues, and made wholehearted commitments to things I valued.

talented. Validating yourself. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

work harder, seek help, and try to catch up.

qué consecuencias tiene creer que tu inteligencia o tu personalidad son algo que puedes desarrollar, y no algo fijo, y no un rasgo inalterable?

Howard Gardner, in his book "Extraordinary Minds", concluded that exceptional individuals have "a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses." It's interesting that those with the growth mindset seem to have that talent.

Only their continued motivation and commitment, along with their network of support, took them to the top.

the somebody–nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Recuerda que en la mentalidad fija el esfuerzo no es causa de orgullo, sino algo que proyecta dudas sobre tu talento.

Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nike, he says: "I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed." You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times.

Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.