Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
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.
You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.
Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
What did you try hard at today?
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.
If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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