Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

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

Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

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

A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.