Quotes About Learning

achieving success requires some failures along the way. Don't beat yourself up when those failures occur.

Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

The growth mindset, then, is a buffer against defeatism. It reframes failure as a natural part of the change process.

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.

When your finance professor starts using the word "dude," you must eliminate the word from your vocabulary.

You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route. This

people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

Rounding early means sharper recall in the end.

If failure is a necessary part of change, then the way people understand failure is critical.

just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

An expert is simply someone who has more experience than you.

Transcendence: help others realize their potential • Self-actualization: realize our own potential, self-fulfillment, peak experiences • Aesthetic: symmetry, order, beauty, balance • Learning: know, understand, mentally connect • Esteem: achieve, be competent, gain approval, independence, status • Belonging: love, family, friends, affection

That's not intuitive knowledge.

That's the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we'll get better, and we'll succeed in the end.

trainers set a behavioral destination and then use "approximations," meaning that they reward each tiny step toward the destination.

The point of the Clinics is not to wow you with our creative genius, and it's fortunate for readers and authors alike that this is not the goal, because we are not creative geniuses. The point is simply to model the process of making ideas stickier. In contrast to traditional disclaimers, this is something you should try at home. Think about each message and consider how you would improve it using the principles in the book.

Knowledge does not change behavior

What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," became the most e-mailed article on the Times website in 2006, and it led to a book on the same topic.

the value of asking more questions and listening to the answers.

Even in failure there is success.

There are, in fact, only two ways to beat the Curse of Knowledge reliably. The first is not to learn anything. The second is to take your ideas and transform them.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us. And it becomes difficult for us to share our knowledge with others, because we can't readily re-create our listeners' state of mind.