Fixed Mindset?

Your mind a powerful thing. The stories you tell yourself and the things you believe about yourself can either prevent change from happening or allow new skills to blossom. Recently, I've been learning more about the link between our beliefs and our behaviors. Dweck is well known for her work on “ the fixed mindset vs the growth mindset”. She describes the difference between these two ideas and how they impact your performance.

A child in his growing period learns to make certain sets of assumptions or notations from the events happening in his growth environment. These sets of assumptions or notations develops into ideas the child uses in his growth period and they are called mindsets. Carol Dweck categorizes these mindsets into two categories called Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset. A Person who restricts his basic abilities and talents to a set of fixed traits is set to have a Fixed mindset. The ideas of such a person revolves around this mindset. The goals of such a person are selfish or self-centered. However, the person with a growth mindset has a complete different ideology. A growth mindset person has an accepting attitude and is always willing to learn something

A person with a growth mindset believes that talent, abilities, and intelligence can be developed through zeal and effort. On the contrary, a person with a fixed mindset believes that qualities, such as talent and intelligence, are fixed traits, which cannot be developed.

What is mindset? Mindset to me means, the set of attitudes established by someone. When I hear growth mind set, it become apparent to me that growth mindset starts at a young age. I for one think that when you start learning at a young age, all the information that you take in from learning will be in your mind. When you do this you can become smarter and smarter over time. The next topic is fixed mindset. When I hear the topic fixed mindset, my mind agrees that fixed mindset is your mind is fixed. When you have a fixed mindset you will try not to learn new objects. Usually a person with a fixed mindset will not try exploring different subjects, apart than learning the same thing over and over.

One cannot mention fixed and growth mindset without mentioning Carol Dweck, whom most of the research and our understanding of these terms comes from. Mindset according to Dweck “is a collection of thought and beliefs that shape your thought habits and your thought habits affect how you think, what you feel, and what you do. Your mind-set impacts how you make sense of the world, and how you make sense of you. Believing that you are either “intelligent” or “unintelligent” is a simple example of a mindset”. The two basic mindset that shape the way people think and live are the fixed and the growth mindset. The individual with a fixed mindset believe that their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success, you either are born with a great deal of knowledge and ability or you are not and there’s not much of anything that you can do to change that (Dweck, Carol). So if someone believe they are not smart enough they usually shy away from things that may seem difficult to them or in some cases won’t even try all.

When students encounter challenging tasks or experience failure, they make different attributions about the causes. They may focus on their intelligence or level of effort. How our beliefs about intelligence impact our goals and performance is the focus of Carol Dweck’s work (Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck, 2007; Dweck, 1986; Dweck, 1999; Hong, Chui, Dweck, Lin, & Wan, 1999). Dweck’s implicit theories of intelligence involves two mindsets: the fixed view and the malleable view. People who have a fixed mindset often believe that their own intelligence is fixed entity that cannot be changed; and those who have a malleable mindset believe that their intelligence can be changed and increased (Dweck, 1999). These two mindsets have profound influences on students’ responses to challenging situations, potentially leading to the extremes of withdrawal of effort and learned helplessness (fixed mindset) or persistent effort and a mastery orientation (malleable mindset). Fortunately, mindsets can be altered and used as interventions to

#1) I strongly agree with the fact that the mindset influences the behavior. I realized this when I studied in China. I was only 9 years old so adapting to a totally new environment was really hard. Everything seemed different with my home country, South Korea. I only thought about negative things and that made my day more depressing and dark. One day, my mom told me that my life lies in my habitual mental attitude. So I tried to change my mindset and think this new life as an adventure; learning new things every day and meet with new friends. I tried to be more active and excited to learn new stuff and that changed me greatly.

My 5-year-­old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was “gratefully.” He eventually got it after a fairly painful minute. He then said, “Dad, aren’t you glad how I struggled with that word? I think I could feel my brain growing.” I smiled: my son was now verbalizing the tell­-tale signs of a “growth­ mindset.” But this wasn’t by accident. Recently, I put into practice research I had been reading about for the past few years: I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain

Even the most gruesome of challenges is capable of making life changing experiences, despite the setbacks. One of them is the possession of a fixed mindset, which has proven to be harmful and can negatively influence the thought process of an individual. From personal experience, the transition from middle school to high school deemed to be difficult as the exams and expectations became overwhelming. Critical thinking and memorization skills became prominent tactics in order to earn high marks in classes and on exams. However, even the smallest of work habits can create the most effective results. For me, one subject had kept me focusing on the fixed mindset, which led to the cycle of self-doubt.

Hey there! Are you the type of person who HATES presenting? What about just being wrong in front of everyone when answering a question? It’s okay! Everyone makes mistakes and it’s totally okay. But if you’re not able to overcome these things and give up this is called a Fixed Mindset. A Fixed Mindset is a person who avoids challenges, gives up on obstacles, and feels threatened by the success of others. Here is what you want to have, it’s called a Growth Mindset. A Growth Mindset is a person who thrives for success, embraces challenges, and puts LOTS of effort into hard work. As a video showed two people who were stuck on an escalator, silly right? You would think they would just walk off. But they just stand there waiting for someone to save them. See this is also shown as a fixed mindset, a person with a growth mindset would have just walked off. If you follow these guidelines i guarantee this will help you big time!

The learning equality is different from between two groups of kids: successful and intelligent students, and the students who are failing from the classes. For those who considered “failure”, they think the effort they put in doesn’t improve them from failing the class to pass the class. Effort and improvement don't mean anything to those students. Not because of the difficulty of the problems, also their ability to learn and challenge themselves. Instead of calling these students as failures, we can just say they are not yet to move on and they can do better and to improve themselves on the learning processes.

In both of these mindsets, they both have some advantages and some disadvantages. The reason why there are some advantages and some disadvantages I think depend on your personality and what type of person you are. A fixed mindset is an intelligence static that leads to a desire to look smart and have a tendency to, which on the other hand a growth mindset is intelligence and can be developed and leads to a desire to learn and have tendency to learn in different ways.

I use feeling bad as a reason for doing nothing because I have no idea where to start and what steps to take to make it then not knowing when to stop planning it and to start carrying it out. When I feel disappointed, frustrated or depressed, I do use this as reason to stop trying because I find myself to be distressed or have low energy, and my needs are unmet. Four steps I have came across that I could take to help my growth mindset of thinking to overcome my fixed mindset would be 1.) To learn how to hear that “voice” of my fixed mindset, 2.) Recognize that I have a choice to interpret my own challenges, 3.) Talk to my fixed mindset with a growth mindset voice and 4.) Take the growth mindset in action. In essence, I could say “fake it ’till

Have you ever been fail in your life? How do you face with that failure? And what did you say with yourself in that moment? This question help you determine what is your mindset. So what is mindset? It is a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determined how you will interpret and respond to situations. According to Carol Dweck’s mindset book, people in the world was divided into two mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. Fixed mindset which is people think that the intelligent, smart, high potential of learning is the natural ability. It has already in their body when they was born and this abilities never change. You are smart or not that who you are.

This thought-provoking article about a study done by Lisa Blackwell, Kali Trzesniewski, and Carol Sorich Dweck, attempts to answer questions pertaining to students’ belief of intelligence. They wanted to know what kind of differences having a fixed mindset or a growth mindset could cause in their academic progress, and whether or not a change in that belief could change their grades as well. While trying to answer these questions, they provide evidence suggesting that children or adolescents who keep a fixed mindset don’t perform as well as others. Having a fixed mindset entails believing that some people are just better at certain things than others. On the contrary, having a growth mindset is having a more realistic approach to things: believing