Quotes About Mindset

understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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!

La lección es esta: crea una organización que aprecie el desarrollo de las habilidades, y observa cómo emergen los líderes. 93

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.

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

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.

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.