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

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

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

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

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

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.

A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.