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What Is Growth Mindset?

By Amanda Morin

People who have a growth mindset believe that even if they struggle with certain skills, their abilities aren’t set in stone.

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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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Backsliding is a universal experience. Every one of us resists significant change, no matter whether it’s for the worse or for the better. Our body, brain and behavior have a built-in tendency to stay the same within rather narrow limits, and to snap back when changed. . . .

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For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

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To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool.

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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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