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Today's classrooms are notorious for handing students the basic skills to live in the world while denying them the strength of character to transform it.
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By shifting the focus of our feedback to effort as opposed to outcome, we leave students with the feeling that their best is yet to come.
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Duckworth’s research is heir to the work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck (2) on mindsets. Believing that we can succeed even after suffering repeated setbacks (what Dweck calls a "growth mindset") can actually re-wire our brains -- and rewrite our fortunes.
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