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Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers QUOTES

Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers QUOTES

1 " We are not born with fixed abilities, and those who achieve at the highest level do not do so because of their genetics. They myth that our brains are fixed and that we simply don't have the aptitude for certain topics is not only scientifically inaccurate; it is omnipresent and negatively impacts education and many other events in our everyday lives. "

― Jo Boaler , Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

2 " We need to replace the idea that learning ability is fixed with the recognition that we are all on a growth journey. "

― Jo Boaler , Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

3 " world. Many children grow up thinking that either you can do math or you can’t. When they struggle, they assume they can’t. From that point on, any struggle is a further reminder of their perceived inadequacies. This affects millions of people. One study found that 48 percent of all young adults in a work-apprentice program had math anxiety;1 other studies have found that approximately 50 percent of students taking "

― Jo Boaler , Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

4 " One of Dweck’s studies showed that children’s mindsets, which had come from the type of praise given by parents, were developed by the time they were three years old. In their study, Dweck and her colleagues found that the praise given to children fourteen to thirty-eight months old predicted the mindsets they had when the children were seven to eight.13 The damaging praise given by parents was the kind that instills the idea of fixed ability. When children are told they are smart, they at first think that is good, but when they mess up on something, they decide they are not smart, and they keep evaluating themselves against that fixed idea. "

― Jo Boaler , Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers