Quotes About Progress

Es tentador crear un mundo en el que somos perfectos (¡ah!, recuerdo ese sentimiento de la escuela elemental). Podemos escoger pareja, hacer amigos o contratar a gente que nos haga sentir infalibles. Pero piénsalo: ¿acaso no quieres crecer nunca? La próxima vez que te tiente rodearte de adoradores, ve a la iglesia. Para todo lo demás, busca la crítica constructiva.

Every lapse doesn't spell doom. It's like anything else in the growth mindset. It's a reminder that you're an unfinished human being and a clue to how to do it better next time.

Maybe you could try making it a more growth-mindset place, starting with yourself. Are there ways you could be less defensive about your mistakes? Could you profit more from the feedback you get? Are there ways you can create more learning experiences for yourself?

how a belief that your qualities are carved in stone leads to a host of thoughts and actions, and how a belief that your qualities can be cultivated leads to a host of different thoughts and actions, taking you down an entirely different road.

Recuerda, las notas de los exámenes y los logros anteriores te dicen dónde está un alumno, pero no te dicen nada de dónde puede acabar.

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.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it.

A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.

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.

training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way. Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind. As you read, think about where you'd like to go and which mindset will take you there.

Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning

Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement." Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the success and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. – Benjamin Barber

But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they

If, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you're open to accurate information about your current abilities, even if it's unflattering.

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.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it. He used it to become a better player and, he believes, a

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better." He

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?