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

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

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

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!

Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.

It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.