Carol S. Dweck Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.176, Random House

• If 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, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Mistake, Giving

• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

• In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Challenges, Growth

• Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Challenges, Growth, Brain

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.53, Random House

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