When it comes to success, it’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. But new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude). Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study shows that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ. Dweck found that people’s core attitudes fall into one of two categories:

Your teenager has a science project due. He hates science. He hates projects (as do you). Do you: A. Set deadlines for him, get the necessary materials, lay them out on the table with some homemade chocolate chip cookies B. Ask your neighbor who is a renowned chemist to stop by and wax poetic about the joys of the periodic table C. Hide and pray If, out of love or a desire to bolster your child’s self-esteem, you picked A or B, teacher an