People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.
It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who
end up the smartest.
Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said,
“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and
the failures. . . . I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”
People in a growth mindset don’t just seek challenge, they
thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch. And nowhere can
it be seen more clearly than in the world of sports. You can just watch people
stretch and grow.
“Becoming is better than being.”
