Quotes About Development

Prodigios o no, todos tenemos intereses que pueden florecer como habilidades.

how a belief that your qualities are carved in stone leads to a host of thoughts and actions, and how a belief that your qualities can be cultivated leads to a host of different thoughts and actions, taking you down an entirely different road.

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.

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.

A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.

solo porque algunas personas puedan hacer bien algo sin necesidad de esforzarse, eso no significa que no lo puedan hacer otros con entrenamiento (y a veces, incluso mejor). Esto

hay muchísima gente con mentalidad fija que cree que el rendimiento temprano de alguien ya te dice todo lo que hay que saber sobre su talento y su futuro.

training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way. Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

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

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

Acaso cualquiera puede hacer cualquier cosa? De verdad que no lo sé. Sin embargo, creo que podemos estar de acuerdo ahora en que la gente puede hacer mucho más de lo que parece.

When we (temporarily) put people in a fixed mindset, with its focus on permanent traits, they quickly fear challenge and devalue effort.

When you learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger. The more that you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow. Then, things that you once found very hard or even impossible—like speaking a foreign language or doing algebra—seem to become easy. The result is a stronger, smarter brain. We

Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

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

think intelligence is something you have to work for . . . it isn't just given to you. . . . Most kids, if they're not sure of an answer, will not raise their hand to answer the question. But what I usually do is raise my hand, because if I'm wrong, then my mistake will be corrected. Or I will raise my hand and say, 'How would this be solved?' or 'I don't get this. Can you help me?' Just by doing that I'm increasing my intelligence.

Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement." Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the success and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. – Benjamin Barber

With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

a person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better." He

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better.