Quotes About Improvement

Are there situations where you get stupid—where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset—think about learning and improvement, not judgment—and hook it back up.

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

When Do You Feel Smart: When You're Flawless or When You're Learning?

Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.

Some of the world's best athletes didn't start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see.

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

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

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

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

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Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability.… Sincerely,

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

I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures," and "I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them." They were studying to learn, not just to ace the test. And, actually, this was why they got higher grades—not because they were smarter or had a better background in science.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures….I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent sociologist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures…. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn't disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don't believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind—well, then they'll work harder and try to catch up.

En realidad, si te sumerges de cabeza en algo es porque no lo dominas. Esto es un rasgo maravilloso de la mentalidad de crecimiento: no tienes que pensar que ya eres excelente en algo que quieras hacer y que disfrutas haciendo.

There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.

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. Encourage them to learn new things.

Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving. And this is exactly what we find in the champions.

few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….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.

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even when you think you're not good at something, you can still plunge into it wholeheartedly and stick to it. Actually, sometimes you plunge into something because you're not good at it. This is a wonderful feature of the growth mindset. You don't have to think you're already great at something to want to do it and to enjoy doing it.