Carol Dweck has a way with words, and you can really feel the work she has done to tame them over her life. (There you go Carol, praise the process right?)
Mindset is a very palatable, very approachable book on high level psychology and the effects it has on our lives; both the detrimental and the uplifting.
The language isn’t esoteric, and Carol definitely isn’t trying to flex years of academic knowledge and language - she is, instead, ultimately concerned with making her point as clearly as possible and to as many people as possible for, without a doubt, no other reason than to improve the lives of her readers.
Inside you’ll find anecdotes about people’s lives; both heartbreaking and liberating in equal serve. These stories stand to demonstrate the power between two very different approaches to processing the world, and our place within it, when faced with challenges, grief, disappointment, failure or loss. The stories act as paintings of two completely different portraits, and yet underlying this is the message that we, ultimately, are the artist of our own lives and while we may not be able to pick the canvas, we are free to choose the paint, the angle, the style and the time required to paint our own portrait; and that it will take time and effort to execute this at varying levels of success.
We all carry a mix of what’s labelled the Fixed-Mindset, and the Growth-Mindset, and as you’ll see it’s not a competition based on where you start relative to others in that ratio, nor a competition with yourself to be perfect.
If you ever hold yourself back, despite your successes, or if you feel hopeless and powerless to take control of yourself and become who you are capable of being, then start reading now.
You’ll not find strict answers to follow as a recipe for success, nor deep academic information, but you’ll find an encouraging way of looking at yourself, and the world; you’ll be kinder to yourself, kinder to others.
If not already, you’ll realise that you, like me, are an unfinished painting and that with time and effort, you can stand tall as a work of art, although never finished, in your own right.
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Dweck presents a dichotomy between fixed mindset (grounded in innate talent/intellect/gifts, excessive judgement, intolerance of mistakes) against a growth mindset (an ongoing love for development/learning, acceptance of setbacks, continued striving to improve). In reality we are all a mix of both, varying along the spectrum and changing over time. More interestingly we each display various mindsets across different parts of our lives (growth in some areas and fixed in others – such as artistic, athletic, parental, professional, intellectual, etc).She discourages an excessive amount of praise for success, and instead focuses on encouragement for effort as well as constructive processes.The book has case studies from education, sport, and business – each distinguishing between the harm from fixed mindsets and the realised potential from growth mindsets.
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Dweck presents a dichotomy between fixed mindset (grounded in innate talent/intellect/gifts, excessive judgement, intolerance of mistakes) against a growth mindset (an ongoing love for development/learning, acceptance of setbacks, continued striving to improve). In reality we are all a mix of both, varying along the spectrum and changing over time. More interestingly we each display various mindsets across different parts of our lives (growth in some areas and fixed in others – such as artistic, athletic, parental, professional, intellectual, etc).
She discourages an excessive amount of praise for success, and instead focuses on encouragement for effort as well as constructive processes.
The book has case studies from education, sport, and business – each distinguishing between the harm from fixed mindsets and the realised potential from growth mindsets.
She discourages an excessive amount of praise for success, and instead focuses on encouragement for effort as well as constructive processes.
The book has case studies from education, sport, and business – each distinguishing between the harm from fixed mindsets and the realised potential from growth mindsets.
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Isadora Casanova
Para reflexionar
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Mateus
An important concept, lots of examples, but a bit repetitive
Reviewed in Brazil on 24 October 2022Verified Purchase
Tom Venuto, Author of Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle
Mindset is more important than talent
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Parham Zolfaghari
Brilliant book!
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Leslie
great to hear from the original source
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