Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

by Barbara Oakley

What exercise does is set the scene to potentiate other changes in how your mind works.

You have to be trained emotionally and psychologically, not just rationally, for entrepreneurship.

social programs almost never constructed the procedures needed to reliably evaluate their success.

giving children easy tasks with plenty of rewards reduces their industrious stick-to-itiveness.

Assistance that makes things too easy, in other words, can backfire and stifle internal drive. The best nurturing for gritty people, Duckworth finds, includes both tough and loving relationships.