Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I’m in this situation?
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.
It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way, keep the growth mindset in your thoughts. Then, when you bump up against obstacles, you can turn to it. It will always be there for you, showing you a path into the future.
This is hard. This is fun.
Don’t judge. Teach. It’s a learning process.
Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner’s development and have them encourage yours.
Wow, that’s a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.
This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
True self-confidence is “the courage to be open – to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.
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.
I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.
Praise should deal, not with the child’s personality attributes, but with his efforts and achievements.
In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.
Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It’s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.