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This is a fabulous of 50 ideas to open your mind and grow your creativity. Pick one and give it a try!

QUOTE Perhaps most importantly, the resilient children had what psychologists call an "internal locus of control": they believed that they, and not their circumstances, affected their achievements. The resilient children saw themselves as the orchestrators of their own fates. In fact, on a scale that measured locus of control, they scored more than two standard deviations away from the standardization group.

QUOTE "You slowly pull back as the kids get better on their own, but not let them flail around so much that they get frustrated and give up."

In this audio podcast (appx. 10 minutes), Carol Dweck talks about some mistaken approaches people sometimes take with growth mindset ,and she also shares a great strategy for managing your tendencies to get stuck in a fixed mindset.

Read the article for details about these mental habits: 1. Making excuses. 2. Catastrophizing the future. 3. Seeking audience approval. 4. Believing self-doubt. 5. Putting yourself down. 6. Second-guessing yourself.