Sublime

parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.

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

Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.

One problem is that people with the fixed mindset expect everything good to happen automatically.

But it was those with the fixed mindset who accounted for almost all the inaccuracy. The people with the growth mindset were amazingly accurate.

into arrogant, defensive nonlearners. The lesson is: Create an organization that prizes the development of ability—and watch the leaders emerge.

We are telling them that what we prize are speed and perfection. Speed and perfection are the enemy of difficult learning: