Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success—a simple idea that makes all the difference. Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports. That idea comes from the fixed mindset: These students are dim-witted, so they need the same simple things drummed into them over and over.
Well, the results are depressing. Students repeat the whole grade without learning any more than they knew before. Instead, Marva Collins took inner-city Chicago kids who had failed in the public schools and treated them like geniuses. No light in the eyes, no hope in the face. Shortly before, he had visited a rich suburban high school where many students had never heard of Shakespeare. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset.
She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.
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. Score: 5. Score: 3. A practical implementation of growth mindset theories is to understand which learning behaviours are the most effective; resilience, self-motivation and determination are key learning behaviours that, when developed well in a child, will support a lifetime of learning.
Primary children who are independent learners and who want to improve their own learning will naturally make better progress. But independent learning has to be modelled, encouraged and resources need to be put in place to promote it. Nikki Willis presents a tried-and-tested framework that is easily transferable on how to develop growth mindset in the primary classroom, while ensuring that independent learners are developed with healthy learning attitudes.
Growth Mindset: A Practical Guide is an invaluable guide filled with effective suggestions on how to create a growth mindset culture over time which will enhance the work already being done in primary schools.
In doing so, a growth mindset culture will mean that primary learners will be eager to learn and want to achieve for themselves. Summary Mindset Author : Sir. Dweck about human thoughts, and how these thoughts can greatly influence the way we live our everyday lives.
This book is written in the form of a self-help book, so readers will find many interesting and educational tidbits of advice on how to live the best life possible. What is really interesting and worth admiring about this book is that Dweck did a tremendous amount of work before she wrote her book. Based on many observations during many years of research, the author developed something called a "mindset" of how different humans perceive different things in different ways and thus live differently.
The author recognized that, based on her observations, there are two distinct, radically different mindsets; however, both of these separate mindsets can be connected with some success. Truly interesting literature to read and to study, Mindset: The New Psychology Today is a book that is here to open new horizons. The book itself is never boring or dull. On the contrary, it will take a reader on a journey that will teach him something new and valuable to lead him toward a better life.
There is a special approach of this achievement; this is the acknowledging of the mindset. Either a fixed or a growth mindset, it is important to understand the difference this capability brings in people. And this book discusses just this. The company is simply a platform for personal validation. Once people decide to move from a fixed to a growth mindset, they experience setbacks and disappointments. Change is hard and sticking to a new mindset is not always easy.
To change, however, they first need to identify the root of their fixed mindset. As the author highlights, usually the narrative plays out like this:. It told them who they were or who they wanted to be a smart, talented child , and it told them how to be that perform well.
In this way, it provided a formula for self-esteem, and a path to love and respect from others. In other words, initially, it was a straightforward source for affirmation and love. However, over time the person might end up identifying completely with the fixed mindset traits.
Changing a mindset requires people to give up this source of self-esteem. After all, the fixed mindset controls most internal monologues and offers refuge from uncertainty and self-doubt. Growth-oriented scientists, artists, athletes, and CEOs are people in the full flower of their individuality and potency. You can be one, too. Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray is a great book that challenges the way you think and the way you see the world.
Gray emphasises that we all have a choice in how we see and navigate the world, and the first step to success is to engage in liminal thinking and allow ourselves to explore new opportunities.
The Magic of Thinking Big contains the secrets to getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life. By thinking big you can motivate yourself to improve your work life, earn more money and get more happiness and fulfilment out of life. Atomic Habits by James Clear. Guidelines is my eBook that summarises the main lessons from 33 of the best-selling self-help books in one place. It is the ultimate book summary; Available as a page ebook and minute audio book.
Guidelines lists 31 rules or guidelines that you should follow to improve your productivity, become a better leader, do better in business, improve your health, succeed in life and become a happier person. This summary is not intended as a replacement for the original book and all quotes are credited to the above mentioned author and publisher.
Now updated with new research—the book that has changed millions of lives After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.
People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with agrowth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.
In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset.
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