They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into acco… - Carol S. Dweck

no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

So in the fixed mindset, both positive and negative labels can mess with your mind. When you’re given a positive label, you’re afraid of losing it, and when you’re hit with a negative label, you’re afraid of deserving it.

Bloom concludes, “After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

The effort kids simply thought the difficulty meant “Apply more effort or try new strategies.” They didn’t see it as a failure, and they didn’t think it reflected on their intellect.