<p>The first important thing is the insight you have already achieved. The next is to love the challenge. You will do great in this environment if you take every setback as an opportunity to learn something new. Carol Dweck, a researcher from Stanford, talks about it in her book Mindset. When students (or anybody) reaches that point where things get hard, and their way of doing things isn’t working- some give up. They say, “Hey, I studied and it didn’t help, so I won’t study next time. It’s too hard, give me something easier”. Others say “What can I do differently? How can I improve?” The first group sees failure as a verdict “OK, I’m stupid. I got a C on the exam”. The other takes the same C as a challenge to jump back in with more enthusiasm and energy. </p>
<p>I’ll search for the link to an article about Carol Dweck’s work (I first saw it on CC)."</p>