Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t e… - Carol S. Dweck

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Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

Carol S. Dweck

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success · February 14, 2009 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Carol S. Dweck

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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