“When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they’re special. Even… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.” — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
With a growth mindset, kids don't necessarily think that there's no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail —… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“IF, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you're open to accurate information about your current… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily.… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Every lapse doesn’t spell doom. It’s like anything else in the growth mindset. It’s a reminder that you’re an unfinished human being… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid,… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today? — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls. Many educators… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they're successful at the moment, because if they start struggling… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“tune in to the messages you’re sending. Are they messages that say: You have permanent traits and I’m judging them? Or are they messages… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation? — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
We're not saying people don't need fuel for strenuous work; they just don't need it constantly. People have many more resources at hand than… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
