Instead of focusing on labels and stereotypes, we can strive to learn and develop. Instead of being persons who blame, put down, and judge others, we can be the ones who teach, encourage, and empower others.Ģ. Although people may differ in every which way-in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments-everyone can change and grow through application and experience.”īecause our mindset reflects how we interpret things, how we learn, what choices we make, what kind of persons we become, and which path we take in life, it's important to take the proactive approach and cultivate the growth mindset. This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. The author writes, “In this mindset, the hand you’re dealt is just the starting point for development. On the other hand, we've also found ourselves motivated to improve on a certain skill, talent, or ability which exemplifies the growth mindset.

It simply wouldn’t do to look or feel deficient in these most basic characteristics.” If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, a certain moral character-well, then you’d better prove that you have a healthy dose of them. Just as people have both good and bad qualities, we are all a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets, each employed and more evident at different times.įor example, haven't we all tried to prove ourselves at one point or another? Dweck explains, “Believing that your qualities are carved in stone-the fixed mindset-creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you're looking to understand how these mindsets play out in different aspects of your life and how you can change your limiting beliefs to become a more motivated and effective leader, parent, coach, business owner, teacher, or partner, then this book is for you.ġ. We're a mix of both fixed and growth mindsets. Individuals with a fixed mindset believe that their intelligence, abilities, qualities, and talents are, well, fixed while those with the growth mindset believe that these can be developed. takes her decades-long research on mindset or a person's set of beliefs and explains how this greatly influences the way we lead our lives. In the bestselling book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Whether we're aware of it or not, our beliefs affect a great many things-what we value, what we want to accomplish, who we strive to become, how we see things, how we interact with others and our surroundings, how we interpret what happens around us and to us, and whether we become successful or not.

Mindset by carol s dweck