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A famous 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 the non-learners.”

What on earth would make someone a non-learner? Everyone is born with an intense _______ to learn. Babies rise to the learning challenge daily. Not just for _______tasks, but the most difficult ones of a lifetime, like leaning to walk and talk. They never decide it’s too hard or not worth the _______. Babies don’t worry about making mistakes or _______ themselves. They walk, they fall, they _______.

What puts an end to this fearless learning? A fixed mindset. As soon as children become able to evaluate themselves, some of them become _______ of challenges. They worry about not being _______. My research team have studied thousands of people from preschoolers on, and It’s breathtaking how many _______ an opportunity to learn.

We offered four-year-olds a _______：they could redo an easy jigsaw (拼图) or try a harder one. Even at this young age, children with a fixed mindset stuck with the __________ one. They believe smart kids don’t make __________.

Children with a growth mindset, however, thought it was a __________ choice. Why would anyone want to keep doing the same puzzle __________? They chose increasingly difficult-ones instead.

Believing that success is about learning, children with a growth mindset seized the chance. But those with a fixed mindset didn’t want to expose their __________. This is how a fixed mindset makes people into __________.