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When 60 Minutes did a segment
: Collins, “Ordinary” Children, 43–44.
Chicago Sun-Times writer Zay Smith
: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’
Way, 160.
As Collins looks back
: Ibid., 47.
“I know most of you can’t”
: Ibid., 21–22.
As they changed from children
: Ibid., 68.
Rafe Esquith teaches Los Angeles
: Rafe Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts (New
York: Pantheon, 2003).
DeLay’s husband always teased her
: Sand, Teaching Genius, 23.
Her mentor and fellow teacher
: Ibid., 54.
“I think it’s too easy”
: Ibid., 70.
Itzhak Perlman was her student
: Ibid., 201.
“I think she has something special”
: Ibid., 85.
Yet she established on Day One
: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way,
19.
When Benjamin Bloom studied his 120
: Benjamin S. Bloom, Developing

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Talent in Young People (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).
When Collins expanded her school
: Collins, “Ordinary” Children.
Esquith bemoans the lowering of standards
: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts,
53.
“That is part of Miss DeLay’s”
: Sand, Teaching Genius, 219.
“I know which child will handle”
: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts, 40.
Collins echoes that idea
: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 21.
One student was sure he couldn’t
: Sand, Teaching Genius, 64.
Another student was intimidated
: Ibid., 114.
As Marva Collins said to a boy
: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way,
208.
Here is a shortened version
: Ibid., 85–88.
“It’s sort of like Socrates says”
: Ibid., 159.
For a class assignment, he wrote
: Ibid., 165.
And she let her students know
: Ibid., 87.
Michael Lewis, in The New York Times
: Michael Lewis, “Coach Fitz’s
Management Theory,” The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 2004.
Bobby Knight, the famous and controversial
: Bob Knight with Bob Hammel,
Knight: My Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002); Steve Alford with
John Garrity, Playing for Knight (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster,
1989); John Feinstein, A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight
and the Indiana Hoosiers (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987).
John Feinstein, author of Season
: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, 3.
In Daryl Thomas, Feinstein says
: Ibid., 3–4.
“You know what you are Daryl?”
: Ibid., 7.
An assistant coach had given this advice
: Ibid., 4.
“What I like best about this team”
: Ibid., 25.
Steve Alford, who went on
: Alford, Playing for Knight, 101.

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“The atmosphere was poisonous”
: Ibid., 169.
Says Alford, “Coach’s Holy Grail”
: Ibid., 63.
In the “season on the brink”
: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, xi.
“You know there were times”
: Ibid., 8–9.
Coach John Wooden produced
: John Wooden with Jack Tobin, They Call Me
Coach (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972); John Wooden with Steve Jamison,
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
(Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1997).
“You have to apply yourself”
: Wooden, Wooden, 11.
“Did I win? Did I lose?”
: Ibid., 56.
If so, he says
: Ibid., 55.
If the players were coasting
: Ibid., 119.
“I looked at each one”
: Ibid., 95.
“Other fellows who played”
: Ibid., 67.
But he promised him
: Ibid., 141–142.
Bill Walton, Hall of Famer
: Ibid., ix.
Denny Crum, successful coach
: Ibid., xii.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hall of Famer
: Ibid., xiii.
It was the moment of victory
: Wooden, They Call Me Coach, 9–10.
“There are coaches out there”
: Wooden, Wooden, 117.
Pat Summitt was the coach
: Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins, Reach for the
Summit (New York: Broadway Books, 1998).
Wooden calls it being “infected”
: Wooden, Wooden.
Pat Riley, former coach
: Pat Riley, The Winner Within (New York: Putnam,
1993).
Summitt explained, “Success lulls you”
: Summitt, Reach for the Summit, 237.
The North Carolina coach
: Ibid., 5.
“Get your heads up”
: Ibid., 6.

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“You never stay the same”
: Tyler Kepner, “The Complete Package: Why A-
Rod Is the Best in Business, Even While Learning a New Position,” The
New York Times, April 4, 2004.
First, it’s the praise:
E. A. Gunderson, S. J. Gripshover, C. Romero, C. S.
Dweck, S. Goldin-Meadow, and S. C. Levine, “Parent Praise to 1-to 3-
Year-Olds Predicts Children’s Motivational Frameworks 5 Years Later,”
Child Development 84 (2013), 1526–1541.
Second, it’s the way adults respond
: K. Haimovitz and C. S. Dweck, “What
Predicts Children’s Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mindsets? Not Their
Parents’ Views of Intelligence but Their Parents’ Views of Failure,”
Psychological Science (2016).
Third, passing on a growth mindset
: K. L. Sun, There’s No Limit: Mathematics
Teaching for a Growth Mindset (doctoral dissertation; Stanford, CA:
Stanford University, 2015).
Other studies paint
: S. H. Yang, K. Haimovitz, C. Wright, M. Murphy, and D.
S. Yeager, Transmitting Organizational Theories of Intelligence Is Easier
Done Than Said: Evidence from a Multi-level Analysis at Ten High
Schools (unpublished manuscript, University of Texas at Austin, 2016).

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CHAPTER 8. CHANGING MINDSETS
In the 1960s, psychiatrist Aaron Beck
: Aaron T. Beck, “Thinking and
Depression: Idiosyncratic Content and Cognitive Distortions,” Archives of
General Psychology 9 (1963), 325–333; Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive
Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence (New York: HarperCollins, 1999).
(At about the same time, therapist Albert Ellis was discovering a similar
thing: that beliefs are the key to how people feel.)
In several studies, we
probed
: This work was done with Ying-yi Hong, C. Y. Chiu, and Russell
Sacks.
It does not confront the basic
: However, see Jeffrey E. Young and Janet
Klosko, Reinventing Your Life (New York: Plume/Penguin, 1994).
Although Young and Klosko are working in a cognitive therapy tradition, a
core assumption of their approach and one that they teach their clients is
that people can change in very basic ways.
A Mindset Workshop
: This workshop was developed with Lisa Sorich
Blackwell with grants from the William T. Grant Foundation and the
Spencer Foundation: L. S. Blackwell, C. S. Dweck, and K. Trzesniewski,
Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement Across an
Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention, 2003. I
would also like to acknowledge other psychologists who have developed
their own student workshops based on the growth mindset: Jeff Howard,
founder of the Efficacy Institute, and Joshua Aronson, Catherine Good, and
Michael Inzlicht of New York University and Columbia University.
“Many people think of the brain”
: This was written for the workshop by Lisa
Sorich Blackwell.
Brainology
: The Brainology computer-based program was also developed with
Lisa Sorich Blackwell, with a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation.
Psychologists Karen Horney and Carl Rogers
: Karen Horney, Neurosis and
Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization (New York:
Norton, 1950); Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
(New York: Norton, 1945); Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy (New

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York: Houghton Mifflin, 1951); On Becoming a Person (New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 1961).
Research by Peter Gollwitzer
: Peter M. Gollwitzer, “Implementation Intentions:
Strong Effects of Simple Plans,” American Psychologist 54 (1999), 493–
503.
Mindset and Willpower
: I am researching this issue with Abigail Scholer, Eran
Magen, and James Gross.
Some people think about this
: See the recent research by Veronika Job and
colleagues (e.g., V. Job, G. M. Walton, K. Bernecker, and C. S. Dweck,
“Implicit Theories About Willpower Predict Self-Regulation and Grades in
Everyday Life,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 108 [2015],
637–647).
When I asked people
: Some of these and later examples are edited or
paraphrased for brevity and clarity (and for the anonymity of the people).

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PHOTO: © MARK ESTES
CAROL S. DWECK, PH.D., is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers
in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She is the
Lewis  and  Virginia  Eaton  Professor  of  Psychology  at  Stanford  University,  has  been
elected  to  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  and  the  National  Academy  of
Sciences, and has won nine lifetime achievement awards for her research. She addressed
the  United  Nations  on  the  eve  of  their  new  global  development  plan  and  has  advised
governments on educational and economic policies. Her work has been featured in almost
every major national publication, and she has appeared on Today, Good Morning America,
and 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.
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