If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, en… - Carol S. Dweck

scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought.

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

With the threat of failure looming, students with the growth mindset set instead mobilized their resources for learning. They told us that they, too, sometimes felt overwhelmed, but their response was to dig in and do what it takes. They were like George Danzig. Who? George Danzig was a graduate student in math at Berkeley. One day, as usual, he rushed in late to his math class and quickly copied the two homework problems from the blackboard. When he later went to do them, he found them very difficult, and it took him several days of hard work to crack them open and solve them. They turned out not to be homework problems at all. They were two famous math problems that had never been solved.