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Carol Dweck's research identified two different mindsets that influence how people view their abilities - a growth mindset, where people believe they can develop their intelligence through effort, and a fixed mindset, where people believe their intelligence is innate and unchangeable. The document contrasts beliefs associated with each mindset, such as the growth mindset believing effort and challenges can improve skills versus the fixed mindset seeing effort as futile and challenges as defeating.

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Mindset

Carol Dweck's research identified two different mindsets that influence how people view their abilities - a growth mindset, where people believe they can develop their intelligence through effort, and a fixed mindset, where people believe their intelligence is innate and unchangeable. The document contrasts beliefs associated with each mindset, such as the growth mindset believing effort and challenges can improve skills versus the fixed mindset seeing effort as futile and challenges as defeating.

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Carol Dweck’s Mindsets

Growth Mindset Beliefs Fixed Mindset Beliefs


People can change how “smart” they People are born as smart as they’ll
are by learning new things and ever be; intelligence is a fixed quality.
growing their brains.
With hard work and effort, anyone can Hard work and effort are futile; if a
learn and do just about anything. person is not good at something,
that’s just the way it is.
No matter how smart people seem, Even really smart people can’t get any
they can still learn and improve their smarter; it’s just the way they were
knowledge and skills. born.
People may seem to have certain You’re a certain kind of person and
characteristics, but they can change you can’t change that.
them with hard work and effort.
The smartest people work really hard, Only people who aren’t very smart or
studying and practicing, so they can skilled have to work really hard, like
grow their brains and improve their doing homework or practicing music
skills. or sports.
It’s in facing new challenges and Challenges are just frustrating and
learning new things that the most defeating; it’s better to stick with the
growth happens in our brains. things for which you have natural
talent.
The most important thing is to learn If a person tries something new and
and grow; mistakes are just part of the fails, people will know s/he is not
process. smart.
Only if people give each other People shouldn’t criticize others; it just
constructive feedback about their makes them feel bad about
work can we know where we need to themselves and, anyway, they can’t
improve and work to do it. help it if they make mistakes.

Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Ballantine
Books.

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