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 whet… - Carol S. Dweck

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don’t define them. And if abilities can be expanded — if change and growth are possible — then there are still many paths to success.

a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

A few modern philosophers … assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.… With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.