Good article for all parents and educators.
I believe that we each have our own level of abilities as we talked about earlier. However, we can prevent ourselves from achieving the height of our abilities with a fixed mindset. Teen girls especially tend to be at risk for relying solely on fixed mindsets, which stymies their true abilities.
Now I do believe that everyone has a ceiling somewhere. The child who struggles in math can be taught a growth mindset and learn much math. However, he might not ever be on the same level as a math Outlier. That's fine. It is painful and ridiculous to perpetuate that "everyone has to be the same amount of good in every single thing".
We just need to ensure that bad experiences (crappy teaching, an off handed comment by a parent, teasing by kids) does not artificially limit anyone's true ability.
Growth/Fixed Mindset
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