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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
Carol S. Dweck Mindset: The New Psychology of Success · 2006

Quotes

“Self-handicapping and the reasoning behind it goes like this: If you withhold effort and do poorly, you can still think highly of your ability, and you can preserve the belief that you could have done well had you applied yourself. If you somehow happen to do well anyway, then this is the surpreme verification of your intelligence.”

Carol S. Dweck · Self-Theories, 2000 · Primary source

“Becoming is better than being.”

Carol S. Dweck · Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, 2006 · Primary source

“Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.”

Carol S. Dweck · Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, 2006 · Primary source

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Carol S. Dweck · 2006
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

An examination of how beliefs about intelligence and ability influence learning, motivation, achievement, personal development and responses to challenges and failure.

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