Quotes from Carol S. 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.

Es decir, en el momento en que niegas tus errores dejas de aprender.

The fixed mindset stands in the way of development and change. The growth mindset is a starting point for change, but people need to decide for themselves where their efforts toward change would be most valuable.

When I was a young woman, I wanted a prince-like mate. Very handsome, very successful. A big cheese. I wanted a glamorous career, but nothing too hard or risky. And I wanted it all to come to me as validation of who I was. It would be many years before I was satisfied. I got a great guy, but he was a work in progress. I have a great career, but boy, is it a constant challenge. Nothing was easy. So why am I satisfied? I changed my mindset.

This is a wonderful feature of the growth mindset. You don't have to think you're already great at something to want to do it and to enjoy doing it.

Then I realized something. I controlled half of the relationship, my half. I could have my half of the relationship.

Elige a alguien que ejerza el papel de abogado del diablo, que tome puntos de vista opuestos a los tuyos de modo que puedas ver los puntos débiles de tu decisión.

Next time you're in a position to discipline, ask yourself, What is the message I'm sending here: I will judge and punish you? or I will help you think and learn?

Many females have a problem not only with stereotypes, but with other people's opinions of them in general. They trust them too much.

Instead of plunging into unthinking memorization of the course material, they said: "I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures," and "I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them." They were studying to learn, not just to ace the test. And, actually, this was why they got higher grades—not because they were smarter or had a better background in science.

I'll never forget the first time I heard myself say, "This is hard. This is fun." That's the moment I knew I was changing mindsets.

Michael must have started with a special ability, but, for me, the most outstanding feature is his extreme love of learning and challenge. His parents could not tear him away from his demanding activities. The same is true for every prodigy Winner describes. Most often people believe that the "gift" is the ability itself. Yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking.

I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

Boys are also constantly calling each other slobs and morons. The evaluations lose a lot of their power.

not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.

Y yo no me voy a rendir; no voy a dejar que te rindas. Si te quedas sentado apoyándote contra la pared todo el día, acabarás por apoyarte en algo o en alguien toda tu vida. Y la genialidad que hay en ti se irá a la basura.

We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people who did not have natural ability, but who developed exceptional skills.

In all of my teaching, I think about what I find fascinating and what I would love to learn more about. I use my teaching to grow, and that makes me, even after all these years, a fresh and eager teacher.

Los que tenían mentalidad fija creían que: «Uno tiene que tener cierta habilidad para los deportes, y no puede hacer mucho para cambiar ese nivel realmente». «Para ser bueno en los deportes, debes tener un talento natural». Por el contrario, todos los que tenían mentalidad de crecimiento estaban de acuerdo en que: «La habilidad deportiva siempre mejora si se trabaja duro».

Cuanto peor se sentían, tanto más motivadas se volvían y tanto más afrontaban los problemas que tenían frente a sí.

They forget the yet. Isn't that what school is for, to teach? They're there to learn how to do these things, not because they already know everything.

When people—couples, coaches and athletes, managers and workers, parents and children, teachers and students—change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework. Their commitment is to growth, and growth takes plenty of time, effort, and mutual support. Learn

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. A