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…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 your partner structure the discussion around the growth mindset, asking each child (and each other): “What did you learn today?” “What mistake did you make that taught you something?” “What did you try hard at today?” You go around the table with each question, excitedly discussing your own and one another’s effort, strategies, setbacks, and learning.Carol S. Dweck
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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 church.Carol S. Dweck
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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 his hands together, smacked his lips, and cried out, :I love a challenge! ". I never though anyone loved failure. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They though they were learning.Carol S. Dweck
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… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.( Seth Abrams)Carol S. Dweck
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Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.Carol S. Dweck
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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
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Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.Carol S. Dweck