Quotes About Fixed Mindset

#1. As a New York Times article points out, failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure). This is especially true in the fixed mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

#2. Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.

Carol S. Dweck

#3. People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.

Travis Bradberry

#4. On the whole, people with a fixed mindset prefer effortless success, since that's the best way to prove their talent.

Carol S. Dweck

#5. Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.

Carol S. Dweck

#6. Fixed mindset is not amenable to change and growth.dogmatic,opinionated.Solution:Allow God and Gods.Let this mind that was in christ ...

Ikechukwu Joseph

#7. Mindfulness gives freedom from negative and fixed mindset to positive and growth mindset.

Amit Ray

#8. Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

#9. In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

Carol S. Dweck

#10. Believing that your qualities are carved in stone - the fixed mindset - creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Carol S. Dweck

#11. When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

Carol S. Dweck

#12. With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Travis Bradberry

#13. Many growth-minded people didn't even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Carol S. Dweck

#14. Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

Carol S. Dweck

#15. And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don't have the ability.

Carol S. Dweck

#16. Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.

Amit Ray

#17. Becoming is better than being. The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

Carol S. Dweck

#18. The fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Carol S. Dweck

#19. I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

Kenneth Branagh

#20. Jane smiled the Making Lemonade smile that adults learn to do when they get used to the world stomping on their heads.

Michael R. Underwood

#21. A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.

Mac DeMarco

#22. 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.

Carol S. Dweck

#23. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the darkness for the light. The darkness lingers until you stand naked in the light and let it fill you up, in every corner of your soul.

Poppet

#25. Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.

Dustin Moskovitz

#26. All the movies with young people were about wanting sex; all the movies with old people were about wanting sex. He would watch these films and feel defeated. When did you get to stop wanting to have sex?

Hanya Yanagihara