Quotes About Effort

Does ability automatically take you where you want to go?

What can I learn from this? How can I improve? How can I help my partner do this better?

It might be easier to mobilize for action if I felt better, but it doesn't matter. The plan is the plan.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it. When it happens, the "I could have been" is heartbreaking, not comforting.

Esto es lo que eso significa: solo porque algunas personas puedan hacer bien algo sin necesidad de esforzarse, eso no significa que no lo puedan hacer otros con entrenamiento (y a veces, incluso mejor). Esto es muy importante, porque 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.

This point is also crucial. In the 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. They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated. And that's what they were doing—getting smarter. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

Recuerda que alabar la inteligencia o el talento de los niños, por tentador que sea, envía un mensaje de mentalidad fija. Hace que su confianza y su motivación sean más frágiles. En su lugar, intenta enfocarte en los procedimientos que usan: sus estrategias, su esfuerzo, lo que eligen.

Lo que quiero decir es que incluso cuando piensas que algo no se te da bien, todavía puedes meterte de lleno en ello con entusiasmo y mantenerlo. En realidad, si te sumerges de cabeza en algo es porque no lo dominas. Esto es un rasgo maravilloso de la mentalidad de crecimiento: no tienes que pensar que ya eres excelente en algo que quieras hacer y que disfrutas haciendo.

Para os de mindset de crescimento, sucesso significava fazer o melhor possível, aprender e se aperfeiçoar.

You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

You can look back and say, "I could have been…," polishing your unused endowments like trophies. Or you can look back and say, "I gave my all for the things I valued." Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.

Some might attribute my transformation to the laws of heredity. … But I think it was my reward for all those hours of work on the bridle path, the neighborhood sidewalks and the schoolhouse corridors.

In the 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.

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.

Instead of plunging into unthinking memorization of the course material, they said: "I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures," and "I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them." They were studying to learn, not just to ace the test. And, actually, this was why they got higher grades—not because they were smarter or had a better background in science.

I'll never forget the first time I heard myself say, "This is hard. This is fun." That's the moment I knew I was changing mindsets.

We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people who did not have natural ability, but who developed exceptional skills.

Los que tenían mentalidad fija creían que: «Uno tiene que tener cierta habilidad para los deportes, y no puede hacer mucho para cambiar ese nivel realmente». «Para ser bueno en los deportes, debes tener un talento natural». Por el contrario, todos los que tenían mentalidad de crecimiento estaban de acuerdo en que: «La habilidad deportiva siempre mejora si se trabaja duro».

Cuanto peor se sentían, tanto más motivadas se volvían y tanto más afrontaban los problemas que tenían frente a sí.

They forget the yet. Isn't that what school is for, to teach? They're there to learn how to do these things, not because they already know everything.

When people—couples, coaches and athletes, managers and workers, parents and children, teachers and students—change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework. Their commitment is to growth, and growth takes plenty of time, effort, and mutual support. Learn

In the fixed mindset, imperfections are shameful - especially if you're talented - so they lied them away.

El esfuerzo es para aquellos que no tienen la capacidad. La gente con mentalidad fija nos dice: «Si tienes que trabajar mucho, será que no se te da bien», y añade: «Los verdaderos genios no necesitan esforzarse».