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

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

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.

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

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

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

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.