Quotes from Carol S. Dweck

When students don't know how to do something and others do, the gap seems unbridgeable. Some educators try to reassure their students that they're just fine as they are. Growth-minded teachers tell students the truth and then give them the tools to close the gap.

Estas creencias pueden ser conscientes o inconscientes, pero influyen en lo que deseamos y determinan en gran parte si lo conseguimos o no.

This point is also crucial. 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. They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

It can't be fun when your claim to fame, your special talent, is in jeopardy. Here's Adam Guettel: "I wish I could just have fun and relax and not have the responsibility of that potential to be some kind of great man . As with the kids in our study, the burden of talent was killing his enjoyment.

They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated. And that's what they were doing—getting smarter. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

The women with the growth mindset—those who thought math ability could be improved—felt a fairly strong and stable sense of belonging.

Recuerda que alabar la inteligencia o el talento de los niños, por tentador que sea, envía un mensaje de mentalidad fija. Hace que su confianza y su motivación sean más frágiles. En su lugar, intenta enfocarte en los procedimientos que usan: sus estrategias, su esfuerzo, lo que eligen.

Lo que quiero decir es que incluso cuando piensas que algo no se te da bien, todavía puedes meterte de lleno en ello con entusiasmo y mantenerlo. En realidad, si te sumerges de cabeza en algo es porque no lo dominas. Esto es un rasgo maravilloso de la mentalidad de crecimiento: no tienes que pensar que ya eres excelente en algo que quieras hacer y que disfrutas haciendo.

Para os de mindset de crescimento, sucesso significava fazer o melhor possível, aprender e se aperfeiçoar.

You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

For people with the growth mindset, the number one goal was forgiveness. As one woman said: "I'm no saint, but I knew for my own peace of mind that I had to forgive and forget. He hurt me but I had a whole life waiting for me and I'll be damned if I was going to live it in the past. One day I just said, 'Good luck to him and good luck to me.'

Not that everyone will become a leader. Sadly, most managers and even CEOs become bosses, not leaders. They wield power instead of transforming themselves, their workers, and their organization.

You can look back and say, "I could have been…," polishing your unused endowments like trophies. Or you can look back and say, "I gave my all for the things I valued." Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.

It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Brutal Bosses McCall goes on to point out that when leaders feel they are inherently better than others, they may start to believe that the needs or feelings of the lesser people can be ignored. None of our fixed-mindset leaders cared much about the little guy, and many were outright contemptuous of those beneath them on the corporate ladder. Where does this lead? In the guise of "keeping people on their toes," these bosses may mistreat workers.

Philip: Gee, I'm so clumsy. Father: That's not what we say when nails spill. Philip: What do we you say? Father: You say, the nails spilled - I'll pick them up!

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As a child I was a member of The Gifted Child Society and continually praised for my intelligence. Now, after a lifetime of not living up to my potential (I'm 49), I'm learning to apply myself to a task. And also to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your chapter helped see myself in a new light.

There are many myths about ability and achievement, especially about the lone, brilliant person suddenly producing amazing things. Yet Darwin's masterwork, The Origin of Species, took years of teamwork in the field, hundreds of discussions with colleagues and mentors, several preliminary drafts, and half a lifetime of dedication before it reached fruition.

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. Who

Believing that success is about learning, students with the growth mindset seized the chance. But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they were willing to put their college careers at risk. This is how the fixed mindset makes people into nonlearners.

Some might attribute my transformation to the laws of heredity. … But I think it was my reward for all those hours of work on the bridle path, the neighborhood sidewalks and the schoolhouse corridors.

as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.

John Wooden, el legendario entrenador de baloncesto, dice que no eres un fracasado hasta que no empiezas a culpar