Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

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

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