Quotes from Carol S. Dweck

Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.

the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Andrew Carnegie once said, "I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.

For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Are there situations where you get stupid—where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset—think about learning and improvement, not judgment—and hook it back up.

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you.

Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope—with determination.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

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 thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

When Do You Feel Smart: When You're Flawless or When You're Learning?

Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.

The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved—with tremendous drive and enthusiasm—and it led where it led.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome.

Just because some people 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. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. Did

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.