If it was good, it was 100% because of their growth mindset. Hey, you remember that thing that happened in history? Where X person did Y thing that turned out to be good/bad? Well, if it was bad, it was TOTALLY because they had a fixed mindset. What you get with this book is an endless diatribe. There are examples of this all around you.īoom. Often, people see their abilities as 'fixed' and this attitude stops them from working to better themselves, turns out that if you work hard and keep the right can-do attitude, that you can accomplish more than if you think you're doomed to be a particular skill level forever. Let me save you the money and the aggravation: The point of this book is (admittedly) not terrible, but it could be summed up real fast.

Its principles are serviceable to the manager, the parent, the spouse, the student, and the teacher. However, Mindset still serves as a useful supplement to a change manager's library. If only they had the Growth mindset, like the Yankees, they would win more World Series.ĭweck may be too in love with her own ideas to realize that she oversells the usefulness of her theory to the extent that the portion that is actually workable seems underwhelming after cutting away from her salesman-like puffery. It was the Fixed mindset that caused the Chicago Cubs to never win a World Series. Conversely, every failure could have been averted but for a change in mindset.

Dweck trying to shoehorn her idea into every single success story in the history of humanity and basically saying that her theory was the best explanation of that success. I was about to give this book a one-star rating because I was so irritated with Dr. Okay, so the idea is fine, and usable, and easy to explain to others, and pretty simple. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love - to transform their lives and your own. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. People with a fixed mindset - those who believe that abilities are fixed - are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset - those who believe that abilities can be developed. 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. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. A newer edition of this book can be found here.Īfter decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S.

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