Mindset by Carol Dweckby Parker on TwosThe view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you live your life.A growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others.Everyone can change and grow through application and experience.A person's true potential is unknown; it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? Stretching yourself and sticking to it.People are terrible at estimating their abilities.You can change your mindset.Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn.People in a growth mindset don't just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch.When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, "I really explored myself." If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you."Becoming is better than being."Michael Jordan, he was a human being. He just stretched himself farther than most.