Sublime

The growth mindset is a starting point for change, but people need to decide for themselves where their efforts toward change would be most valuable.

A growth mindset is about believing people can develop their abilities.

Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways.

“Becoming is better than being.”

Remember that having innate talent is not a goal. Expanding skills and knowledge is.

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don’t define them.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, 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.”

Dr. Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University, we have a mind-set problem. Dweck has done an enormous amount of research to understand what makes someone give up in the face of adversity versus strive to overcome it.

We can appreciate them as much as we want for the growth-oriented process—what they accomplished through practice, study, persistence, and good strategies.