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This means there’s a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students’ potential to develop.

then you’re open to accurate information about your current abilities, even if it’s unflattering.

Dr. Carol Dweck of Stanford University has studied attitudes toward learning for decades, as covered in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Dweck determined that most people adhere to one of two mindsets: fixed or growth.

We teach them to focus almost exclusively on themselves and their own performance—because they must have a perfect grade point average, must be selected by a top-tier college, must find an impressive job. They are so busy focusing on themselves that they rarely have time to consider how they might help and serve others. Kindness and gratitude are

control demonstrate that grit is a better measure of potential success than IQ. Failure immunity gives you grit to spare.

Together with the Values in Action (VIA) Institute on Character, Seligman and Peterson devised a 240-question inventory for measuring the positive emotional strengths that contribute to our success and well-being in life.10 The goal of the inventory is “to help people evolve toward their highest potential,”

Dr. Mischel found a correlation between Willpower and success: kids with a greater ability to “defer gratification” were more successful in school, as well as later on in life. Overriding our instincts can often make it possible to collect larger rewards later—spending is easy, but saving is not, even if the latter is more beneficial over time.

sucesso consiste em provar que você é inteligente ou talentoso.

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