Quotes About Progress

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.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. When

Suddenly we realized that 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.

You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

I think intelligence is something you have to work for … it isn't just given to you….

Put yourself in a growth mindset. Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

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.

the growth mindset tend to cope—with determination.

Yesterday they were hotshots; today they're failures. Here's what happens. They look at the faculty with our long list of publications. "Oh my God, I can't do that." They look at the advanced students who are submitting articles for publication and writing grant proposals. "Oh my God, I can't do that." They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this—yet. They forget the yet.

But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort and coaching over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort, coaching, and time will take someone? Who knows—maybe the experts were right about Jackson, Marcel, Elvis, Ray, Lucille, and Charles—in terms of their skills at the time. Maybe they were not yet the people they were to become.

There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.

they believe that a person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

They don't talk royalty. They talk journey. An inclusive, learning-filled, rollicking journey.

read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

part of an organization that wants to help you grow,

everyone can change and grow through application and experience.

I changed it because of my work. One day my doctoral student, Mary Bandura, and I were trying to understand why some students were so caught up in proving their ability, while others could just let go and learn. Suddenly we realized that 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.

few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

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

Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

work harder, seek help, and try to catch up.

qué consecuencias tiene creer que tu inteligencia o tu personalidad son algo que puedes desarrollar, y no algo fijo, y no un rasgo inalterable?

busca la crítica constructiva.