- instead of "I'm not good at this", try thinking "what am I missing"
- instead of "I'm awesome at this", try thinking "I'm on the right track"
- instead of "I give up", try thinking "I'll use some of the strategies we've learned"
- instead of "this is too hard", try thinking "this may take some time and effort"
- instead of "I can't make this any better", try thinking "I can always improve, so I'll keep trying"
- instead of "I just can't do math", try thinking "I'm going to train my brain in math"
- instead of "(s)he's so smart, I'll never be that smart", try thinking "I'm going to figure out how (s)he does it"
- instead of "it's good enough", try thinking "is it really my best work"
- instead of "plan a didn't work", try thinking "good thing the alphabet has 25 more letters"
jul 6 2014 ∞
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