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

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

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

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.

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.

This is hard. This is fun.

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