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

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

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

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

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.

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

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.