I strongly recommend you to read the book to get the entire essence of the book.In effect it was deeply revealing, it gave me a perspective into how I had been looking at several things.
Dr. Carol Dwecks research has been the most revealing and explained many of my bizarre moments of life. Most of their efforts are spent in trying to prove themselves. People with Growth Mindsets believe that we can change and improve with practice. Those with Growth Mindset feel smart when they get a breakthrough with a tough problem that they had been struggling with a long time. Since they believe attributes to be fixed, they consider it to be a final proclamation of their abilities and often quit at this stage. A growth mindset person considers the same as a feedback to where they are at present as against where they aspire to be and often double up on their efforts to become better at their pursuit. Those with Growth Mindset think with efforts you can master anything and become anybody. Hence as caretakers we must be very careful in the message we give them every time. When you praise a child for the results you reinforce a fixed mindset. We have several examples of Fixed Mindset people who have become the best in their field. He wanted to get by his raw talent and often blamed circumstances for his defeat. As against the legendary basketball player, Michael Jordon never stopped improving in his long career. From a below par player who was dropped from his varsity team he rose up to be a legend. They want their friends and partners to tell them how wonderful they are and it is the mistake of the world if their genius has not yet been recognised. Any feedback for improvement is shunned upon as being unsupportive as they do not believe in change. They seek and work on feedback given to them to become a better version of themselves. You may be a fixed mindset leader but a growth mindset parent and vice versa. By recognizing that we have a fixed mindset and by resolving to change it. It can start in simple ways such as What would a Growth Mindset person do in these circumstances and follow our own advice. It has given me a perspective to life that I had nver known existed. I wish more school and parents adopt Dr.Dwecks ingenious methods of teaching, parenting and coaching. There is no aspect of life that it would not touch and make better.
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