"[[NASA]] thought so. **When they were soliciting applications for astronauts, they rejected people with pure histories of success and instead selected people who had had significant failures and bounced back from them**. [[Jack Welch]], the celebrated CEO of [[General Electric]], chose executives on the basis of “runway,” their capacity for growth. And remember [[Marina Semyonova]], the famed ballet teacher, who chose the students who were energized by criticism. They were all rejecting the idea of fixed ability and selecting instead for mindset." ([Location 566](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01M036N60&location=566)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[resilience]], [[adversity]], [[failure]], [[slowing-down-not-stopping]], [[growth-mindset]] **Source** -- [[20250429082504 - B - Mindset]]