With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. (Location 123)
major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.” (Location 131)
Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. (Location 139)
growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. (Location 154)
everyone can change and grow through application and experience. (Location 156)
they believe that 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. (Location 158)
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained” and “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” or “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” (Location 207)
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. (Location 240)
exceptional individuals have “a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.” (Location 245)
The other thing exceptional people seem to have is a special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes. (Location 248)
there were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning. (Location 305)
Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. (Location 321)
People in a growth mindset don’t just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch. (Location 399)
Sometimes people with the growth mindset stretch themselves so far that they do the impossible. (Location 416)
But isn’t potential someone’s capacity to develop their skills with effort and coaching over time? (Location 518)
People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower. (Location 526)
The best pilots fly more than the others; that’s why they’re the best.” (Location 595)
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. (Location 675)
When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don’t define them. (Location 718)
appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. (Location 756)
“This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most. And when it’s music you love, you’re in for the fight of your life.” (Location 790)
We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don’t really harm our lives or the lives of others. (Location 924)
sometimes you plunge into something because you’re not good at it. This (Location 961)
Alfred Binet believed you could change the quality of someone’s mind. Clearly you can. (Location 1164)
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.” (Location 1171)
In contrast, when students were praised for effort, 90 percent of them wanted the challenging new task that they could learn from. (Location 1271)
praising ability lowered the students’ IQs. And that praising their effort raised them. (Location 1286)
The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. (Location 1338)
innate talent is nothing, that [success] is 99 percent hard work. I agree with him.” (Location 1411)
“I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there….It (Location 1717)
brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else. (Location 2150)
As growth-minded leaders, they start with a belief in human potential and development—both their own and other people’s. (Location 2215)
“Eventually I learned that I was really looking for people who were filled with passion and a desire to get things done. A resume didn’t tell me much about that inner hunger.” (Location 2261)
The approved way to foster productivity was now through mentoring, not through terror. (Location 2279)
The members of the growth-mindset groups were much more likely to state their honest opinions and openly express their disagreements as they communicated about their management decisions. (Location 2375)
a growth mindset—by relieving people of the illusions or the burdens of fixed ability—leads to a full and open discussion of the information and to enhanced decision making. (Location 2413)
