Quotes About Development

Mozart labored for more than ten years until he produced any work that we admire today.

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person

Por cierto, la mentalidad de crecimiento no te fuerza a dedicarte a nada; simplemente te dice que puedes desarrollar tus habilidades. De nuevo eres tú quien tiene que decidir si quieres hacerlo o no.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Here's what this means: 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. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

La creencia de que los miembros de la pareja tienen la posibilidad de cambiar no debe confundirse con la creencia de que cambiarán. Los miembros de la pareja tienen que querer cambiar, comprometerse con el cambio y emprender acciones concretas al respecto.

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

a growth-minded manager - a guide, not a judge.

La mentalidad de crecimiento es la creencia de que las habilidades pueden cultivarse, pero no te dice cuánto cambio es posible ni cuánto tiempo requerirá. Y tampoco significa que todo, como las preferencias o los valores, pueda cambiarse.

we first develop the Ego, then encounter the Soul, and finally give birth to a unique sense of Self.

the brain cannot do its most important job of organizing sensory messages.

It is a lesson for all ages: the importance of seeing mistakes not as personal failings to be denied or justified but as inevitable aspects of life that help us improve our work, make better decisions, grow, and grow up.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday. —Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1948

Their stories, so different on the face of it, are linked by common psychological and neurological mechanisms that can create false memories that nonetheless feel vividly, emotionally real. These memories do not develop overnight, in a blinding flash. They take months, sometimes years, to develop, and the stages by which they emerge are now well known to psychological scientists.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations." —Paul Valery

Chapter thirty-four

I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.

You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.

Sometimes we speak and feel too much as if 'an education' were a finished product, to be bought and paid for, often with great sacrifice, and bestowed. In reality, education can only be attained by personal effort, and should be for each a continuing process, ending only with life itself, or possibly then just well begun. There are fortunately many roads to personal culture and usefulness, and not all lead through the college campus.

You grow through love. You don't postpone love until you stop growing.

Most kids are assholes, just like most adults.

What makes us become us? What fucks us up and why?

time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.