236 Quotes by Carol S. Dweck

Is there something you’ve always wanted to do but were afraid you weren’t good at? Make a plan to do it.

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.

The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner’s development and have them encourage yours.

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

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.

When I was a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that changed my life. I was obsessed with understanding how people cope with failures, and I decided to study it by watching how students grapple with hard problems.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Instead of just giving employees an award for the smartest idea or praise for a brilliant performance, they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.