Quotes About Motivation

Me emocionó escuchar recientemente que Haim Ginott, a través del trabajo de toda su vida con los niños, llegó a la misma conclusión: «El elogio no debería ser sobre los atributos personales del niño, sino sobre su esfuerzo y sus logros».

There is no magic here. Mrs. Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot of people, and so will you.

As soon as children become able to evaluate themselves, some of them become afraid of challenges. They become afraid of not being smart.

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, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise.

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I changed it because of my work. One day my doctoral student, Mary Bandura, and I were trying to understand why some students were so caught up in proving their ability, while others could just let go and learn. Suddenly we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

Since this was a kind of IQ test, you might say that praising ability lowered the students' IQs. And that praising their effort raised them.

work harder, seek help, and try to catch up.

Only their continued motivation and commitment, along with their network of support, took them to the top.

Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nike, he says: "I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed." You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times.

growth mindset doesn't force you to pursue something. It just tells you that you can develop your skills. It's still up to you whether you want

If you have room on your mirror, copy them over and tape them there, too.

Piensa qué te gustaría decir a ti, llegado el momento, y escoge tu mentalidad.

En lugar de sumergirse en una memorización irreflexiva del material del curso, repasaban cada tema hasta estar seguros de comprenderlo bien. Estudiaban para aprender, no para sacar un sobresaliente en el examen. Y precisamente por eso sacaron mejores notas, no porque fuesen más inteligentes o porque tuviesen una base más sólida en ciencias.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success?

con la mentalidad adecuada y la enseñanza apropiada, la gente es capaz de mucho más de lo que pensamos.

Recuerda, las notas de los exámenes y los logros anteriores te dicen dónde está un alumno, pero no te dicen nada de dónde puede acabar.

So telling children they're smart, in the end, made them feel dumber and act dumber, but claim they were smarter. I don't think this is what we're aiming for when we put positive labels—"gifted," "talented," "brilliant"—on people. We don't mean to rob them of their zest for challenge and their recipes for success. But that's the danger.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.

With the right mindset and the right teaching, people are capable of a lot more than we think.

When we taught people the growth mindset, it completely changed the way they reacted to their depressed mood. The worse they felt, the more motivated they became and the more the confronted the problems that faced them.

But as you can imagine, their confidence is more fragile since setbacks and even effort can undermine it.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.