Mindset - Dweck_ Carol.rtf

Edwards agrees that most people view drawing as a magical ability that only a select few possess, and that only a select few wil ...

while Salieri, his rival, is dying of envy? Well, Tharp worked on that movie and she says: Hogwash! Nonsense! “There are no ‘nat ...

challenging new task that they could learn from. Then we gave students some hard new problems, which they didn’t do so well on. ...

College Board exams. He had come to consult with me about one of his students. This student takes practice tests and then lies t ...

So in the fixed mindset, both positive and negative labels can mess with your mind. When you’re given a positive label, you’re a ...

The women with the growth mindset—those who thought math ability could be improved—felt a fairly strong and stable sense of belo ...

was shocked. It was then that I realized no one had ever said anything like that to me. Males say it to each other all the time. ...

where you get stupid—where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you’re in one of those situations, get yourself into a gro ...

As he watched, listened, and mulled it over, it dawned on Beane that mindset was more important than talent. And not long after ...

brain was always in perfect working condition.” “He showed us all,” he continued with a broad smile written across his face, “th ...

biographer, says, “Ruth put on the finest display of sustained hitting that baseball has ever seen.. .. From the ashes of 1925, ...

Did you know there was once a strong belief that you couldn’t physically train for golf, and that if you built your strength you ...

this?” “That question,” Faulk says, “basically got me involved in football in a more in-depth way.” As a pro, he never stopped a ...

having a meltdown. Here, finally, was another chance to fight off the curse and defeat their archrivals. If they won, they would ...

make it to the finals, he had not played that well in the tournament and was not optimistic about his chances against the young, ...

important match. But then she had a Eureka! moment. All at once, she understood what a champion was: someone who could raise the ...

was hit by a bus and was physically destroyed, but he made it back to the top. “I believe ability can get you to the top,” says ...

it,” McEnroe says, “when my head was so big it could barely fit through the door.” Where’s the talk about effort and personal be ...

stamina and agility with age, but to compensate, he worked even harder on conditioning and on his moves, like the turnaround jum ...

He got mad at the system! Hi there, John. This was your life. Ever think of taking responsibility? No, because in the fixed mind ...