Mindset

Getting excited about challenges, not avoiding them

Praising our attempts, not our outcomes

Teams that promote and foster a growth mindset tend to be more collaborative, empowered and committed.

Letting go of outcome when the pursuit is meaningful. A growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. “Maybe they haven’t found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.”

True 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 openness and readiness to grow. Confident people and high achievers are relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

Success comes from having the right mindset rather than intelligence, talent or education.

A growth mindset: Believing that intelligence and talents can be improved through effort and learning. “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”

A fixed mindset: Believing that intelligence is fixed and static.

It IS Possible To Adopt a Growth Mindset In Adulthood

Your Abilities Are Set In Stone With The Fixed Mindset

If You Have The Growth Mindset You Can Grow & Develop

Our Mindset Is Influenced By The Role Models We Had As Children

In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you’re not the best—it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues.

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.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

People with the growth mindset thrive when they’re stretching themselves. When do people with the fixed mindset thrive? When things are safely within their grasp.

The growth mindset is a starting point for change, but people need to decide for themselves where their efforts toward change would be most valuable.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?

The growth mindset is meant to help kids learn, not to paper over the fact that they are not learning.

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone... creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world... In one world, success is about proving you’re smart or talented. In the other, it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new.

When you’re lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, ‘I really explored myself.’ If you only go through life doing stuff that’s easy, shame on you.

If success means you’re somebody, what are you when you’re unsuccessful?

For them, even geniuses have to work hard for their achievements.

Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.

Effort isn’t quite everything and that all effort is not created equal. Rich, educated, connected effort works better. People with fewer resources, in spite of their best efforts, can be derailed so much more easily.

Studying now has a new meaning. It isn’t about getting the highest grade to prove her intelligence and worth to her parents. It’s about learning things and thinking about them in interesting ways.

Effort is what makes you smart or talented.

For people with the growth mindset, the number one goal was forgiveness.

Our findings tell us that it’s possible to weave a fixed or growth mindset into the very fabric of an organization to create a culture of genius or a culture of development.

Change isn’t like surgery... Instead, the new beliefs take their place alongside the old ones, and as they become stronger, they give you a different way to think, feel, and act.

When faced with a challenge, just think, you are learning and growing.

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.

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.

It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is about proving you’re smart or talented. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new.

Sometimes people with the growth mindset stretch themselves so far that they do the impossible.

The fixed mindset makes people into nonlearners.

Effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

You can look back and say, 'I could have been…,' polishing your unused endowments like trophies. Or you can look back and say, 'I gave my all for the things I valued.

Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways.

The fixed mindset creates the feeling that you can really know the permanent truth about yourself. And this can be comforting: You don’t have to try for such-and-such because you don’t have the talent.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.

A good teacher is one who continues to learn along with the students.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues.