“ What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than think… Carol S. Dweck
“ All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and… Carol S. Dweck
“ 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 qu… Carol S. Dweck
“ CEOs face this choice all the time. Should they confront their shortcomings or should they create a world where they have none? Lee Iacocca chose the latter. He surrounded himself with worshipers, exi… Carol S. Dweck
“ Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abi… Carol S. Dweck
“ … see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams) Carol S. Dweck
“ I expected differences among children in how they coped with the difficulty, but I saw something I never expected.Confronted with the hard puzzles, one then-year-old boy pulled up his chair, rubbed hi… Carol S. Dweck
“ 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 churc… Carol S. Dweck
“ If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their c… Carol S. Dweck
“ …You decide that, rather than trying to talk out of the fixed mindset [to your kid], you have to live the growth mindset, you have to live the growth mindset. AT the dinner table each evening, you and… Carol S. Dweck
“ Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. Carol S. Dweck
“ Just because someone 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. Carol S. Dweck
