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Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Harvard, and Columbia before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004. She was named an Association for Psychological Science (APS) James McKeen Cattell Fellow in 2013, an APS Mentor Awardee in 2019, and an APS William James Fellow in 2020, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2012.

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Are there situations where you get stupid — where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you’re in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset — think about learning and improvement, not judgment — and hook it back up.

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they’re special. Even superior.

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.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope — with determination.

The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.

What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.

Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.

Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that can be changed should be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.

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. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone’s early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.