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Carol Dweck

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Updated Edition)

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  • Nahda Azzahrahas quoted2 years ago
    “When you’re lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, ‘I really explored myself.’
  • Konul Shirinhas quoted3 years ago
    Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.” Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
  • Andreahas quoted2 days ago
    Andrew Carnegie once said, “I wish to have as my epitaph: ‘Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.’ ”
  • ɐuɐɥhas quoted3 days ago
    Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.” Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
  • ɐuɐɥhas quoted3 days ago
    A few modern philosophers . . . assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. . . . 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.
  • ɐuɐɥhas quoted3 days ago
    Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.
  • Andreahas quoted14 days ago
    Character, heart, the mind of a champion. It’s what makes great athletes and it’s what comes from the growth mindset with its focus on self-development, self-motivation, and responsibility.
  • Andreahas quoted14 days ago
    you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.”
  • Andreahas quoted14 days ago
    “In our society sometimes it’s hard to come to grips with filling a role instead of trying to be a superstar,” says Jordan. A superstar’s talent can win games, but it’s teamwork that wins championships.
  • Andreahas quoted14 days ago
    of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.
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