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Carol S. Dweck - We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves ext...
Welcome to the Daily Quote – I'm Andrew McGivern.
Today's quote comes from Carol S. Dweck, Stanford psychologist and author of "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success."
She wrote:
"We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary."
This quote destroys a comforting lie we tell ourselves. The lie goes like this:
"Those people are special. They were born with talent I don't have. They're different from me. So of course they succeeded."
It's comforting because…
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