Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972.
Carol S. Dweck Self-help
Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done. Carol S. Dweck
Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.
Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. Carol S. Dweck
Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. Carol S. Dweck
No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
What if you could break the chain of limiting thoughts about who you are and all you could be? Carol S. Dweck
What if you could break the chain of limiting thoughts about who you are and all you could be?
Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. Carol S. Dweck
Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.
Mindsets frame the running account that’s taking place in people’s heads. They guide the whole interpretation process. Carol S. Dweck
Mindsets frame the running account that’s taking place in people’s heads. They guide the whole interpretation process.
Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways. Carol S. Dweck
Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways.
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. Carol S. Dweck
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.
Champions are relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Carol S. Dweck
Champions are relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. Carol S. Dweck
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
Becoming is better than being. Carol S. Dweck
Becoming is better than being.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. . .If success means they’re smart, then failure means they’re dumb. that’s the fixed mindset. Carol S. Dweck
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. . .If success means they’re smart, then failure means they’re dumb. that’s the fixed mindset.
