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

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

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

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.

What did you try hard at today?

This is hard. This is fun.