Carol Dweck

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Mindset - Updated Edition

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A few modern philosophers assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism... . With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. 

Everyday people decide to do difficult things, but they don't do them. They think, "i will do it tomorrow," they swear to themselves that they'll follow through the next day. 

Research by Peter Gollwitzer and his colleagues shows that vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid concrete plan.

Think of something you need to do, something you need to learn, or a problem you have to confront. What is it? Now make a concrete plan. When will you follow through on your plan ? Where will you do it? How will you do it? Think about it in vivid detail 

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone, the fixed mindset creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? 

The 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. 

Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just ordinary skills, but the most difficult tasks of a lifetime, like learning to walk and talk. They never decide it's too hard or not worth the effort. Babies don't worry about making mistakes or humiliating themselves. They walk, they fall, they get up. They just barge forward.

Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.

 "After every game or practice, if you walk off the field knowing that you gave everything you had, you will always be a winner."

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no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

"This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most."

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

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