Quotes About Belief

growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. Although people may differ in every which way—in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments—everyone can change and grow through application and experience.

they believe that a 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.

parents, teachers, and coaches pass on a growth mindset not by having a belief sitting in their heads but by embodying a growth mindset in their deeds: the way they praise (conveying the processes that lead to learning), the way they treat setbacks (as opportunities for learning), and the way they focus on deepening understanding (as the goal of learning).

Cuando crees que tus cualidades básicas pueden desarrollarse, puede que los fracasos también te duelan, pero no te identificarás con ellos. Los fracasos no te definirán. Y si las habilidades pueden desarrollarse –si son posibles el cambio y el crecimiento–, eso significa que todavía existen muchos caminos hacia el éxito.

Quién dice que los elefantes no pueden bailar?

I changed it because of my work. One day my doctoral student, Mary Bandura, and I were trying to understand why some students were so caught up in proving their ability, while others could just let go and learn. Suddenly we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….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.

qué consecuencias tiene creer que tu inteligencia o tu personalidad son algo que puedes desarrollar, y no algo fijo, y no un rasgo inalterable?

Recuerda que en la mentalidad fija el esfuerzo no es causa de orgullo, sino algo que proyecta dudas sobre tu talento.

The growth mindset is the belief that abilities can be cultivated. But it doesn't tell you how much change is possible or how long change will take. And it doesn't mean that everything , like preferences or values, can be changed.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success? In the chapters that follow, you'll see exactly how this happens: how the mindsets change what people strive for and what they see as success. How they change the definition, significance, and impact of failure. And how they change the deepest meaning of effort.

failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure). This is especially true in the fixed mindset.

growth mindset doesn't force you to pursue something. It just tells you that you can develop your skills. It's still up to you whether you want

If you have room on your mirror, copy them over and tape them there, too.

la timidez dañaba las interacciones sociales de quienes tenían mentalidad fija, pero no dañaba las de aquellos que tenían una mentalidad de crecimiento.

Piensa qué te gustaría decir a ti, llegado el momento, y escoge tu mentalidad.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success?

how a belief that your qualities are carved in stone leads to a host of thoughts and actions, and how a belief that your qualities can be cultivated leads to a host of different thoughts and actions, taking you down an entirely different road.

con la mentalidad adecuada y la enseñanza apropiada, la gente es capaz de mucho más de lo que pensamos.

People in a fixed mindset often run away from their problems. If their life is flawed, then they're flawed. It's easier to make believe everything's all right.

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset— creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

For Jordan, success stems from the mind. "The mental toughness and the heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have. I've always said that and I've always believed that." But

hay muchísima gente con mentalidad fija que cree que el rendimiento temprano de alguien ya te dice todo lo que hay que saber sobre su talento y su futuro.

With the right mindset and the right teaching, people are capable of a lot more than we think.