Our mindset is the way we think, what we believe. This is an excerpt from Professor Carol Dwecks book:”Through more than three decades of systematic research, [Carol Dweck] has been figuring out answers to why some people achieve their potential while equally talented others don’t—why some become Muhammad Ali and others Mike Tyson. The key, she found, isn’t ability; it’s whether you look at ability as something inherent that needs to be demonstrated or as something that can be developed.”
“Our mindset creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. It shapes our goals, our attitude towards work and relationships and ultimately predicts whether or not we will fulfil our potential.Professor Carol Dweck and her colleagues at Columbia and Stanford Universities have spent 35 years studying motivation and achievement. Their research indicates that everyone has one of two basic mindsets: Fixed (entity) Mindset and Growth (incremental) Mindset.”
Our mindsets decides everything, from our learning to how much we learn, whether we would fail or taste success.
Our growth mindsets can be enhanced, improved. It believes that no matter what, we can improve, we can increase our knowledge and we can be enhanced and developed. Those with a Growth mindset come across as ocnfident people who are not afraid. These people are not afraid to fall down many times. They believe that they can learn from their mistakes and hance not afriad to make mistakes and learn from them.
However, in a fixed mindset, people hold very strong beliefs they are the way they are. They do not take challenges very easily, they avoid these challenges and stick to what they believe. People with this mindset ignore critiscim and usually see themselves as failures when compared to succesful people. People with this mindset have very little self confidence and get hurt easily.
People with fixed mindsets still do succeed, but they are not as strong or as experienced as those with a growth mindset. But fixed mindset can be changed to a growth mindset with the determination to change.
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“The most dramatic proof comes from a recent study by Dweck and Lisa Sorich Blackwell of low-achieving seventh graders. All students participated in sessions on study skills, the brain and the like; in addition, one group attended a neutral session on memory while the other learned that intelligence, like a muscle, grows stronger through exercise. Training students to adopt a growth mind-set about intelligence had a catalytic effect on motivation and math grades; students in the control group showed no improvement despite all the other interventions.
“Study skills and learning skills are inert until they’re powered by an active ingredient,” Dweck explains. Students may know how to study, but won’t want to if they believe their efforts are futile. “If you target that belief, you can see more benefit than you have any reason to hope for. “
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