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If You Have Ability, Why Should You Need Learning?

Take the same classes, but get better grades. Take the same tests, but get better scores. Pursue the same diplomas, but attend better universities.

a “genius with a thousand helpers” model. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams.

children. Research is clear on this point: learning works best when math teachers first go through an example, in some detail, before letting their students tackle similar problems on their own.

believe that good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.

The kind of feedback we get from parents, teachers, and mentors when we are young has a major impact on the beliefs we develop about our abilities—including whether we see them as innate and unchangeable or as capable of developing through effort and practice.

SELF-INSIGHT: WHO HAS ACCURATE VIEWS OF THEIR ASSETS AND LIMITATIONS?

The fixed mindset limits achievement.

Growth Mindset.