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Mindset and Learning in Children
- 🧠 The belief that your qualities are fixed creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over, while the belief that they can be developed creates a passion for learning and growth.
- 🧠 People with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands, even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.
- 🧠 Children with a growth mindset see intelligence as something to work for, while those with a fixed mindset want to ensure they always succeed.
- 😰 Fear of trying and failing robs you of all your excuses, but honest failure is better than not trying at all.
- 🧠 In the growth mindset, you don’t always need confidence – you can still plunge into something wholeheartedly and stick to it, even if you’re not good at it.
- 📚 The fixed mindset limits achievement, makes effort disagreeable, and leads to inferior learning strategies, while the growth mindset gives people a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.
- 🧠 Just because some people 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.
- 🧠 Marshall Faulk’s incredible football IQ was not just a gift, but the result of years of curiosity, study, and asking “why.”
- 🧪 Those with a growth mindset find setbacks motivating and informative, using them as a wake-up call to take charge of the processes that bring success and maintain it.
- 👶 Children as young as toddlers pick up messages from their parents about whether their mistakes are worthy of judgment or an occasion for teaching.
- 👩🏫 Great teachers believe in the growth of intellect and talent, and are fascinated with the process of learning.
Growth Mindset in Business and Leadership
- 🏢 The talent mindset in business, as seen in the case of Enron, can lead to a culture that worships talent, forces employees into a fixed mindset, and ultimately hinders the company’s ability to self-correct and thrive.
- 🌱 Growth mindset leaders prioritize human potential and development, creating a culture of growth and teamwork within their companies.