Quotes About Progress

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

Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields.

But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort and time will take someone? Who

fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you're tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.

see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill. (Seth Abrams)

They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this—yet. They forget the yet.

In one world, failure is about having a setback. Getting a bad grade. Losing a tournament. Getting fired. Getting rejected. It means you're not smart or talented. In the other world, failure is about not growing. Not reaching for the things you value. It means you're not fulfilling your potential.

a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

Create an organization that prizes the development of ability—and watch the leaders emerge.

when you teach children to measure themselves from their success, they then measure themselves from their failure as well. Finally,

What did they know? They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. 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.

the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your

Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?

People with a fixed mindset were only interested when the feedback reflected on their ability. Their brain waves showed them paying close attention when they were told whether their answers were right or wrong.

fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning. That

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

What did you learn today?" "What mistake did you make that taught you something?" "What did you try hard at today?" You go around the table with each question, excitedly discussing your own and one another's effort, strategies, setbacks, and learning.

in the fixed mindset, you don't take control of your abilities and your motivation. You look for your talent to carry you through, and when it doesn't, well then, what else could you have done? You are not a work in progress, you're a finished product. And finished products have to protect themselves, lament, and blame. Everything but take charge.

Think about effort as a positive constructive force, not as a big drag.

In fact, every word and action can send a message. It tells children—or students, or athletes—how to think about themselves. It can be a fixed-mindset message that says: You have permanent traits and I'm judging them. Or it can be a growth-mindset message that says: You are a developing person and I am committed to your development.

chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth.

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.