It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

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

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.