Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet? A great introduction to this influential field.

Here are the first four minutes of her comments from the transcript of her ten-minute TED program , To watch it and read the complete transcript, please click here.

To learn more about Carol and her important work, please click here.