The Mindset By Carol Dweck

“Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them.”(Dweck 46) Carol Dweck author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success says this because mindsets aren’t permanent and you are able to change your mindset about anything. How you approach things in life and what mindset you use toward it can affect the outcome of what occurs. How you take the results of how you did can affect the future of how you go about doing things. One of the reoccurring themes of the growth mindset is trying a new approach at a goal or a situation that you don’t know how to go about.

According to Judy Willis, “When you are experiencing highly negative emotions or severe stress, incoming information is routed to a different part of your brain”. When the high-level thinking happens, the information routed is to the reactive lower brain. When that happens, the memory is affected, all active learning stops. A fourth way is recognized and valuing incremental progress boosts a person’s motivation and enables him or her to deal effectively with setbacks. According to Dweck, “people with growth mindsets, believe their abilities can be developed though dedication and hard work- brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have these qualities.” With a growth mindset, people realized by having a failure in the past don’t mean they will in the future.

In Chapter 9 of Grit, Angela Duckworth argues that a growth mindset, rather than a fixed mindset, leads to more success. She shows that a growth mindset leads to a more optimistic outlook on failures, which further leads to perseverance and the ability to take on new challenges without giving up. Using additional research, I agree with Duckworth’s claim that a growth mindset makes an individual more successful because a growth mindset transforms obstacles into learning opportunities and fosters hope, which are essential skills to overcoming failures and becoming successful.

Although CHEER may seem hard and overwhelming to students, they have to push themselves to achieve an A in both courses. Establishing a growth mindset in summer school is key to being successful in the classes that are being taken. Students should take advantage of tutoring and lab time that is offered. Wisely using both opportunities, CHEER students have the ability to obtain an A in both courses. In order to do so, students have to keep a healthy brain by getting rest, exercising and living a healthy lifestyle. By doing such things, students will be prompt and ready for class.

Basically, individuals with a fixed mindset often feel measured by a failure, sometimes permanently. Unfortunately, failed attempts are viewed as a label rather than an opportunity to plan a new path of succes. On the other hand, an individual with a growth mindset views a failed attempt as an opportunity to take action, to confront obstacles, to keep up with their schoolwork, and/or to better manage and organize their time. Growth mindset individuals believe that qualities can be developed, expanded, and eventually result in a successful outcome. A second lesson learned is the power of labels and the stereotype of ability; this lesson is undoubtedly one of the most enlightening. Dweck discovered in one of her studies that, “... ability praise often pushed students right into a fixed mindset, and they showed all the signs of it too. When we gave them a choice, they rejected a challenging new task that they could learn from. They didn’t want to do anything that could expose their flaws and call into question their talent” (72). One’s mindset determines their reaction to labels and stereotypes. An individual with a fixed mindset will settle for a positive label and chose stagnation and permanent inferiority rather than risk losing the label; whereas,

“The New Psychology of Success”, these terms have an aura of a certain mind altering power. The read, Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, focused upon two specific mindsets: fixed mindset vs. growth mindset. Dweck shuffles through personal experiences as well as researched experiences to showcase and explain each mindset. Although I personally have had both mindsets, consistent success was only attainted through ensuring a growth mindset, similar to the experiences presented by Dweck, and this success is achievable to anyone who instills this mindset.

A fixed mindset is when someone believes the abilities you are born with are the ones you will always have, and they cannot be changed. Children who possess a fixed mindset are likely to attribute their success to pure luck and their failures to ability or lack thereof. This is also known as learned helplessness. Children with a growth mindset, however, have a contrasting perspective. They believe abilities can be improved over time with an input of effort. They attribute their success to their abilities and their failures to variables that can be easily altered. As I have mentioned in the past, I fall under the authoritative parenting style. Because an authoritative parenting style is firm but caring and encouraging, I have cultivated a growth

In an article called “Brainology” Carol S. Dweck argues that there is a fixed mindset and growth mindset and I agree because Dweck says “not everyone has the same abilities or that someone can be as smart as Einstein, but Einstein wasn’t even Einstein until he put in the years of focused hard work.” So this tells me that if you have a fixed mindset you’ll be afraid to look smart so rather look dumb. On the other hand, if you have a growth mindset you’ll put in the hard work and achieve greatness. So either give up or we fight for what we want. We’ll either fail and quit or fail and get back on the horse and be something in

Dweck believes that someone who possesses a “growth mindset” is almost the polar opposite of someone who has a “fixed mindset.” A person with a growth mindset is able to think positively and see the silver lining of an unfavorable situation. They are able to improve from their mistakes, and always finds a way to become better at different aspects of life. Growth mindsets come with an open mind, making these people extremely versatile in any circumstance. In addition, their mindsets increase in complexity through maturity. They believe that as long as anyone puts in the effort, they have the potential to succeed.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., truly forces its audience to evaluate their mindset, whether it be a fixed or growth mindset, and to determine how they can improve upon that very mindset in their personal and professional lives. Throughout the book, Dweck explores what exactly the fixed mindset and the growth mindset are, and how “. . . the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your

Having a fixed mindset is ok. But having a growth mindset is even better. People with fixed mindsets, often give up and don’t believe that they can do better. Like being negative. Other people with growth mindsets believe that they can do better and they don’t give up when things get tough.

“The Growth Mindset” by Rona Elisa talks about the difference between people with a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and how to overcome from fixed to growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe that their basic traits and skills are permanent and that it is a natural talent. Therefore, they do not challenge themselves in order to avoid any failure situations because they want to prove they are smart. Whereas, people with a growth mindset put the effort in learning to improve their basic qualities and skills. So, when it comes to challenging situations people with a fixed mindset either they try to avoid it or blame others, make up excuses, and/ or criticize in order for them to save their self- worth.

The difference between a growth mindset is that they see it as a chance to grow and develop their intelligence even if they didn’t succeed at first that person will try even if they have failed at first and a fixed mindset is that person believes their smart or not at something and don’t really need to put a lot of effort in it or practice more if they're good at it. My mindset about my intelligence and abilities have mostly been a fixed mindset when it comes to stuff I don’t understand or don’t know if I'll ever use it again. Also, my mindset has sometimes been a growth mindset if it’s stuff that I easily understand or if I want to develop more on it. A growth mindset can help you in college to help with improvement through hard

At the point when an individual has a correct mindset they'll comprehend what it takes to become successful. The mentalities that we see today in our society are called growth and fixed mindset. Having a growth mindset is the point at which an individual can simply enhance and searching for an opportunity to extend which leads to achieving a goal. A fixed mindset is trusting insight is something you were conceived with and can regularly anticipate development of

All three texts, Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, “What is your own big plan?” by Obama, and David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, draws the conclusion that a growth mindset can change people’s outlook on life by learning life lessons, having a successful future, and being a happier person with dedication. Changing someone’s outlook on life starts with learning from your mistakes. Following, by learning lessons it leads to being more successful in your life. Lastly, being successful allows people to be happy. The inference is that a growth mindset can fix someone’s overall outlook on life.