236 Quotes by Carol S. Dweck

Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

What did they know? They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. And that’s what they were doing – getting smarter. Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn’t disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don’t believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind – well, then they’ll work harder and try to catch up.

Becoming is better than being.” The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

Are there situations where you get stupid – where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you’re in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset – think about learning and improvement, not judgment – and hook it back up.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.