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When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.
— Carol S. Dweck
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Carol S. Dweck
psychologist, university teacher
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Carol Susan Dweck is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Harvard, and Columbia before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004. She was named an Association for Psychological Science (APS) James McKeen Cattell Fellow in 2013, an APS Mentor Awardee in 2019, and an APS William James Fellow in 2020, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2012.
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Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.
— Carol S. Dweck
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Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
— Carol S. Dweck
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In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.
— Carol S. Dweck
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Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
— Carol S. Dweck
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This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.
— Carol S. Dweck