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a person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. — location: 158 ^ref-43530

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. — location: 616 ^ref-39790

Not his fault. So he didn’t train to improve his ability to concentrate or his emotional control. — location: 674 ^ref-52619

you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. — location: 675 ^ref-41010

her. You can look back and say, “I could have been…,” polishing your unused endowments like trophies. Or you can look back and say, “I gave my all for the things I valued.” Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset. — location: 810 ^ref-35685

And then they switch themselves into the growth mindset—making sure they take the challenge, learn from the failure, or continue their effort. — location: 850 ^ref-48538

Rich, educated, connected effort works better. — location: 871 ^ref-33553

People with fewer resources, in spite of their best efforts, can be derailed so much more easily. — location: 871 ^ref-35694

Most often people believe that the “gift” is the ability itself. Yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking. — location: 1125 ^ref-16224

there’s a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students’ potential to develop. — location: 1146 ^ref-41304

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.” — location: 1172 ^ref-61275

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. — location: 1196 ^ref-13827

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. — location: 1217 ^ref-33291

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. — location: 1231 ^ref-46327

the burden of talent was killing his enjoyment. — location: 1281 ^ref-27023

I don’t think this is what we’re aiming for when we put positive labels—“gifted,” “talented,” “brilliant”—on people. We don’t mean to rob them of their zest for challenge and their recipes for success. But that’s the danger. — location: 1306 ^ref-18047

When stereotypes are evoked, they fill people’s minds with distracting thoughts—with secret worries about confirming the stereotype. People usually aren’t even aware of it, but they don’t have enough mental power left to do their best on the test. — location: 1331 ^ref-42513

a growth mindset helps people to see prejudice for what it is—someone else’s view of them—and to confront it with their confidence and abilities intact. — location: 1377 ^ref-62320

the growth mindset lets people—even those who are targets of negative labels—use and develop their minds fully. — location: 1421 ^ref-43026

consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. — location: 1429 ^ref-60837

the natural does not analyze his deficiencies and coach or practice them away. The very idea of deficiencies is terrifying. — location: 1457 ^ref-61782

scoring runs—the whole point of baseball—was much more about process than about talent. — location: 1466 ^ref-11299

His physical performances in the ring were absolutely wrong….Yet, his brain was always in perfect working condition.” — location: 1498 ^ref-38742

“He could experiment at the plate,” Cobb said. “No one cares much if a pitcher strikes out or looks bad at bat, so Ruth could take that big swing. If he missed, it didn’t matter….As time went on, he learned more and more about how to control that big swing and put the wood on the ball. By the time he became a fulltime outfielder, he was ready.” — location: 1535 ^ref-32213

“There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me. — location: 1557 ^ref-19228

qualities of a hero: the loss, the vulnerability near defeat, then a comeback and a final triumph. — location: 1674 ^ref-46176

the mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right—when you’re not playing well and your emotions are not the right ones. — location: 1679 ^ref-58463

When eleven players want to knock you down, when you’re tired or injured, when the referees are against you, you can’t let any of it affect your focus. How do you do that? You have to learn how. — location: 1694 ^ref-25959

people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to. — location: 1713 ^ref-56040

Stretched beyond ordinary abilities.. whats the baseline?

personal success is when you work your hardest to become your best— — location: 1735 ^ref-41985

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you. — location: 1765 ^ref-7665

“nothing is promised.” — location: 1887 ^ref-16044

focus on self-development, self-motivation, and responsibility. — location: 1891 ^ref-521

“The minute a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse.” — location: 2190 ^ref-21976

True self-confidence is “the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” — location: 2252 ^ref-30647

“I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit here and feel sorry for myself!” (Perhaps this phrase should be the mantra of the growth mindset.) — location: 2623 ^ref-55964

choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates. The trick is to acknowledge each other’s limitations, and build from there. — location: 2775 ^ref-40545

The belief that partners have the potential for change should not be confused with the belief that the partner will change. — location: 2809 ^ref-35443

To me the whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner’s development and have them encourage yours.” — location: 2882 ^ref-2472