236 Quotes by Carol S. Dweck

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

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 thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset: "I won because I have talent. Therefore I will keep winning." Success can infect a team or it can infect an individual.

When stereotypes are evoked, they fill people’s mind with distracting thoughts - with secret worries about confirming the stereotype. People usually aren’t aware of it, but they don’t have enough mental power left to do their best on the test. This doesn’t happen to everybody, however. It mainly happens to people who are in a fixed mindset. It’s when people are thinking in terms of fixed traits that the stereotypes get to them.

work toward curing yourself of the need to blame. Move beyond thinking about fault and blame.

It may feel as though the fixed mindset gave you your ambition, your edge, your individuality. Maybe you fear you'll become a bland cog in the wheel just like everyone else. Ordinary. But opening yourself up to growth makes you more yourself, not less.

It might be easier to mobilize for action if I felt better, but it doesn't matter. The plan is the plan.

It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a growth mindset to their children. These parents think setbacks are good things that should be embraced, and that setbacks should be used as a platform for learning. They address the setback head-on and talk to their children about the next steps for learning.

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