Quotes About Learning

Un esfuerzo rico, educado y con contactos funciona mejor.

This student takes practice tests and then lies to him about her score. He is supposed to tutor her on what she doesn't know, but she can't tell him the truth about what she doesn't know!

Por qué es tan aterrador el esfuerzo? Hay dos razones. Una es que en la mentalidad fija se supone que los grandes genios no lo necesitan,

Les pones etiquetas a tus hijos? Este es el artista, y ese es el científico. Recuerda la próxima vez que no los estás ayudando, aunque los estés elogiando. Recuerda nuestro estudio en el que elogiar la habilidad de los niños hizo que sus cocientes intelectuales disminuyeran. Encuentra una forma de mentalidad de crecimiento para halagarlos.

Como esse estudo era uma espécie de teste de QI, é possível dizer que elogiar a capacidade reduziu o QI dos alunos, e elogiar o esforço elevou-o.

We know from our studies that people with the fixed mindset do not admit and correct their deficiencies.

people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

La mentalidad de crecimiento permite que la gente valore lo que está haciendo sin tener en cuenta el resultado.

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.

La mentalidad fija se enfoca en el resultado. Si fracasas –o si no eres el mejor–, todo se ha desperdiciado

Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures….I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

En general, la gente con mentalidad fija prefiere un éxito sin esfuerzo, ya que es la mejor manera de demostrar su talento.

Children with the growth mindset, on the other hand, couldn't tear themselves away from the hard problems. These were their favorites and these were the ones they wanted to take home. "Could you write down the name of these puzzles," one child asked, "so my mom can buy me some more when these ones run out?

The Brainology program kind of made me change the way i work and study and practice for school work now that i know how my brain works and what happens when i learn.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Here's what this means: 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.

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

Of course, life does not always follow our scripts. We get feedback from what really happens; this sharpens our reality principle so that we can think things through more intelligently the next time. The point is, we live out some options and we imagine our way through others. In either case, we learn what we want, what we believe in, what our values are. We will never know who we are and what we want if we just stay in our old ruts. This is why we must wander a bit to grow.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

It is a lesson for all ages: the importance of seeing mistakes not as personal failings to be denied or justified but as inevitable aspects of life that help us improve our work, make better decisions, grow, and grow up.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday. —Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1948

As with the psychotherapists we discussed in chapter 4, training does not increase accuracy; it increases people's confidence in their accuracy.

We are forever being told that we should learn from our mistakes, but how can we learn unless we first admit that we made those mistakes? To do that, we have to recognize the siren song of self-justification.

We can try to balance sympathy and skepticism. And then we can learn to hold our conclusions lightly, lightly enough so that we can let them go if justice demands that we do.