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With a learning goal, students don't have to feel that they're already good at something in order to hang in and keep trying. After all, their goal is to learn, not to proge they're smart.

If you believe intelligence is something you can increase, the same encounters become opportunities for growth. ... intelligence is something you demonstrate,... it's something you develop

First law of mastery: mastery is a mindset.

Our beliefs about ourselves and the nature of our abilities determine how we interpret our experiences and can set the boundaries on what we accomplish

Flow is essential for mastery.

When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom.

Creating flow-friendly environments that help people move toward mastery can increase productivity and satisfaction at work

Maybe reaching flow, as an ethic for living -- maintaining that beautifull "eye-on-the-object look" to achieve mastery as a cook, a surgeon, or a clerk -- was the answer.

In flow, people lived so deeply in the moment, and felt so utterly in control, that their sense of time, place, and even self melted away.

The highest, most satisfying experiences in people's luves were when they were in flow.