What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

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

Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

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.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

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.