Black Box Thinking: Growth Mindset and the Secrets of High Performance

by Matthew Syed

they were so terrified of underperforming, so worried that the exam might reveal that they were not very clever, that they needed an alternative explanation for possible failure. They effectively sabotaged their own chances in order to gain one.

competition has favoured entrepreneurs that take bottom-up learning seriously rather than those that do not.

No one can possibly give us more service than by showing us what is wrong with what we think or do; and the bigger the fault, the bigger the improvement made possible by its revelation.