mindset was written by Stanford
University psychologist Carol Dweck her
decades of research on achievement and
success led her to discover what great
parents teachers CEOs and athletes
already know that our mindset is the
basis of accomplishment lesson one the
two mindsets people with the fixed
mindset belief intelligence can't be
changed this leads to a desire to look
smart so they avoid challenges they
don't want to look bad if they fail
which holds them back in the face of
obstacles they get defensive or give up
easily they see effort is pointless and
believe that people are only great at
things because they were born with
special talents when confronted with
constructive criticism they ignore it
lastly they feel threatened by the
success of others people with a fixed
mindset achieve much less than they're
capable of on the other hand people with
the growth mindset
believe intelligence can be developed
this leads to a desire to learn so
instead of avoiding challenges they
embrace them they persist in the face of
obstacles and see effort as a path to
mastery they accept constructive
criticism and use it to their advantage
lastly they feel inspired by and learn
from the success of others as a result
they fulfill their ultimate potential
lesson 2 mindset in sports Michael
Jordan wasn't a natural he was one of
the hardest-working athletes in history
he was rejected by his high school
varsity team and the first two NBA teams
that could have chosen him he was
devastated but his mother told him to
work hard and discipline himself and
that's exactly what he did he used to
leave the house at 6:00 in the morning
to practice before school but what about
people that seemed to just be a natural
yes these people exist but Carroll
argues that with all the praise for
their talents and with how little work
they've needed to put in they can easily
develop a fixed mindset they may not
learn how to work hard or cope with
setbacks a growth mindset is what allows
athletes to maintain their success in
the long term Carol found that athletes
with a growth mindset
found success in doing their best in
learning and improving found setbacks
motivating and took charge of the
processes that bring success lesson 3
mindset in business Jim Collins and his
team conducted a five-year research
project with the aim to find out how
companies go from good to great
one thing they found was that great
companies had leaders with a growth
mindset in the late 1980s IBM was in
trouble their culture was filled with
people trying to be better than each
other they had a culture of smugness and
defending personal status that inhibited
learning and growth in 1993 they asked
Lou Gerstner to turn things around
Lou had a growth mindset and encourage
teamwork and got rid of the uptight
culture over the next nine years
IBM increased in value by eight hundred
percent ultimately Carol argues that
successful businesses need to Train
leaders managers and employees to have a
growth mindset this can be done by
cultivating a growth mindset environment
and involves presenting skills as
learner ball conveying that the
organization values learning and
perseverance not in a talent giving
feedback that promotes learning and
future success and presenting managers
as resources for learning lesson four
mindset in relationships there's two
common ways of dealing with pain and
heartbreak in a relationship the first
is to label yourself as unlovable and
seek revenge this is how fixed mindset
people deal with it they let these
experiences scar them and prevent them
from forming new relationships in the
future for people with the growth
mindset it's about understanding
forgiving and moving on although they
are deeply hurt from these negative
experiences like anyone would be they
want to learn from it in a relationship
it's possible to believe your qualities
your partner's qualities and the
relationships qualities are fixed
but the growth mindset says that these
three things can be developed two fixed
ways of thinking about a relationship
are one if you have to work at it it
wasn't meant to be the truth is that all
relationships require work and effort
and you can't expect your partner to
know your needs if
you don't communicate them effectively
the romanticized idea of a perfect
problem and free relationship that
automatically works is unrealistic and
the second way of thinking about a
relationship is that problems indicate
character flaws
people often blend their relationship
problems on their partner and assign the
blame to a character flaw they think
that their partner is just an angry
person when really the problem is not
the person but the situation if Julie is
angry every day when Jim gets home from
work instead of blaming Julie for being
an angry person he could look at the
situation and try to understand why
she's always angry by communicating with
her by doing this a solution can be
found finally your partner may have
different skills beliefs and values than
your own a growth minded approach to a
relationship is helping your partner to
reach their own goals and fulfill their
potential lesson five mindset and
parenting and teaching the way children
think about themselves is heavily based
on the messages they receive from their
parents and teachers this has a direct
effect on their learning and development
with every interaction you have with a
child ask yourself am i giving them the
fixed mindset message that they have
permanent traits and I'm judging them or
am i communicating a growth mindset
message that says you are a developing
person and I'm interested in your
development
another critical lesson is to not praise
children's intelligence if you say you
learn that quickly you're so smart what
children really hear is if I don't learn
something quickly I'm not smart or if
you say you're so brilliant you got an a
without even studying children really
hear I'd better quit studying or they
won't think I'm brilliant
this doesn't mean don't praise your
children but praise their effort and
choices not their intelligence and
talent you could say you really studied
for your tests and your improvement
chosen you read the material over
several times and you tested yourself on
it it really worked
consider this real-life scenario
nine-year-old Elizabeth loved gymnastics
and was determined to win the local
gymnastics competition
she did very well but not enough to win
she was devastated if you were her
parents what would you do tell Elizabeth
you thought she was the best tell her
she was robbed of a ribbon that was
rightfully hers reassure her that
gymnastics is not important tell her she
has the ability and will definitely win
next time or tell her she didn't deserve
to win feel free to pause the video and
think about this for a moment now let's
run through each answer a is insincere
and doesn't offer her a way to improve B
places blame on the judges when the
problem was her performance do you want
Elizabeth growing up to blame others for
her deficiencies C is a fixed mindset
response that teaches her to devalue
something if she doesn't do well right
away D does ability automatically take
you where you want to go if Elizabeth
didn't win this one why should she win
the next one
and finally e it seems harsh and
obviously you'd say in a nicer way but
this is necessary to help Elizabeth
cultivate a growth mindset that will
bring her success in the future
her growth minded father told her
Elizabeth I know how you feel it's so
disappointing to have your hopes up and
perform your best but not win but you
know you haven't really earned it yet
there were many girls who've been in
gymnastics longer than you have and
who've worked a lot harder than you if
this is something you really want then
it's something you have to really work
for Elizabeth took this to heart and
spent more time perfecting her routines
at the next competition she became the
overall champion now for the final
lesson how to change your mindset the
first way is to access Carole's
resources one is a brain ology computer
program designed to help students
develop a growth mindset through
classroom activities and online
instruction other resources include a
live workshop
webinars keynote presentations and more
the second way to change your mindset is
merely knowing about the growth mindset
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mindsets mindset and sports business
relationships parenting and teaching and
how to change your mindset in the next
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how to develop a sense of belonging and
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