Quotes About Learning

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.

Since this was a kind of IQ test, you might say that praising ability lowered the students' IQs. And that praising their effort raised them.

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person. Encourage them to learn new things.

You don't have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who wouldn't be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or loved one -- these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.

Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving. And this is exactly what we find in the champions.

Resumiendo, el talento natural no analiza sus defectos, ni los elimina entrenando o practicando. La mera idea de ser imperfecto es aterradora.

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.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is about proving you're smart or

Learning the nuts and bolts of the company could later give you a big advantage. All of our top growth-mindset CEOs knew their companies from top to bottom, inside out, and upside down.

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.

talented. Validating yourself. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

work harder, seek help, and try to catch up.

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

busca la crítica constructiva.

Es tentador crear un mundo en el que somos perfectos (¡ah!, recuerdo ese sentimiento de la escuela elemental). Podemos escoger pareja, hacer amigos o contratar a gente que nos haga sentir infalibles. Pero piénsalo: ¿acaso no quieres crecer nunca? La próxima vez que te tiente rodearte de adoradores, ve a la iglesia. Para todo lo demás, busca la crítica constructiva.

even when you think you're not good at something, you can still plunge into it wholeheartedly and stick to it. Actually, sometimes you plunge into something because you're not good at it. 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.

Every lapse doesn't spell doom. It's like anything else in the growth mindset. It's a reminder that you're an unfinished human being and a clue to how to do it better next time.

growth mindset—think about learning, challenge, confronting obstacles. Think about effort as a positive, constructive force, not as a big drag. Try it out.

Thriving on the Sure Thing Clearly, people with the growth mindset thrive when they're stretching themselves. When do people with the fixed mindset thrive? When things are safely within their grasp. If things get too challenging—when they're not feeling smart or talented—they lose interest.

En lugar de sumergirse en una memorización irreflexiva del material del curso, repasaban cada tema hasta estar seguros de comprenderlo bien. Estudiaban para aprender, no para sacar un sobresaliente en el examen. Y precisamente por eso sacaron mejores notas, no porque fuesen más inteligentes o porque tuviesen una base más sólida en ciencias.

The problem was that these stories made it into an either–or. Either you have ability or you expend effort. And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don't have the ability. People with the fixed mindset tell us, "If you have to work at something, you must not be good at it." They add, "Things come easily to people who are true geniuses.

Prodigios o no, todos tenemos intereses que pueden florecer como habilidades.