Quotes About Mindset

Events in the world affect us only through our interpretations of them, so if we can control our interpretations, we can control our world.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."7

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think."40

And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

Happiness comes from within, and it cannot be found by making the world conform to your desires.

Emotional reasoning is among the most common of all cognitive distortions; most people would be happier and more effective if they did less of it.

To summarize the idea that our emotions, our reactions to events, and some mental illnesses are caused by the mental filters through which we look at the world, I could not say it any more concisely than Shakespeare: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. EPICTETUS, 1st–2nd century1

There is no reality, only perception.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it. —MARCUS AURELIUS1

A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments. Hume diagnosed the problem long

You can take the IAT yourself at ProjectImplicit.org

Can I believe it?" when we want to believe something, but "Must I believe it?" when we don't want to believe. The answer is almost always yes to the first question and no to the second.

people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind is usually a more effective response to frustration than is changing the world.

When you refute a person's argument, does she generally change her mind and agree with you? Of course not, because the argument you defeated was not the cause of her position; it was made up after the judgment was already made.

cognitive triad

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Marcus Aurelius advised, "Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

Life is what we deem it, and our lives are the creations of our minds.

Those with a fixed mindset tend to learn things in a superficial way, just enough to prove they can do it. That's bad enough, but it gets worse. When people

On the other hand, those with a growth mindset believe that intelligence is something that can be grown. Effort, work, and challenges are what make intelligence grow and flower and bear juicy fruit. People with a growth mindset aren't as attached to demonstrating their intelligence because they know intelligence can be increased, and so intelligence isn't a fundamental, unvarying aspect of their sense of self. Notice I said, "aren't as attached.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer, author (b. 1940)