Quotes About Progress

Becoming is better than being." The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from a job? Being rejected? Focus on that thing. Feel all the emotions that go with it. Now put it in a growth-mindset perspective. Look honestly at your role in it, but understand that it doesn't define your intelligence or personality. Instead, ask: What did I (or can I ) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth? Carry that with you instead.

a genius who constantly wants to upgrade his genius.

For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

When Do You Feel Smart: When You're Flawless or When You're Learning?

Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome.

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.

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

I was intensely curious because Cézanne is one of my favorite artists and the man who set the stage for much of modern art. Here's what I found: Some of the paintings were pretty bad. They were overwrought scenes, some violent, with amateurishly painted people. Although there were some paintings that foreshadowed the later Cézanne, many did not. Was the early Cézanne not talented? Or did it just take time for Cézanne to become Cézanne?

Bloom concludes, "After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.

Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that, too, if you want to.

Some of the world's best athletes didn't start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent sociologist, 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." What

There was a saying in the 1960s that went: "Becoming is better than being." The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

There's an assumption," he said, "that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

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

What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait?

test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don't define them. And if abilities can be expanded—if change and growth are possible—then there are still many paths to success.

People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.