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

This is hard. This is fun.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

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.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

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