For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

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

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

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