Quotes About Development

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don't define them. And if abilities can be expanded—if change and growth are possible—then there are still many paths to success.

People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.

it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

It's the parents who respond to their children's setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a growth mindset to their children. These parents think setbacks are good things that should be embraced, and that setbacks should be used as a platform for learning. They address the setback head-on and talk to their children about the next steps for learning.

But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort and time will take someone? Who

fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you're tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.

Just because someone 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.

see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill. (Seth Abrams)

scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought.

They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this—yet. They forget the yet.

In one world, failure is about having a setback. Getting a bad grade. Losing a tournament. Getting fired. Getting rejected. It means you're not smart or talented. In the other world, failure is about not growing. Not reaching for the things you value. It means you're not fulfilling your potential.

a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

Create an organization that prizes the development of ability—and watch the leaders emerge.

What did they know? They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. And that's what they were doing—getting smarter. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your

Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?

fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning. That

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. Validating yourself. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself. In

This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.

What did you learn today?" "What mistake did you make that taught you something?" "What did you try hard at today?" You go around the table with each question, excitedly discussing your own and one another's effort, strategies, setbacks, and learning.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.

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.