Mindset - Dweck_ Carol.rtf

fine! “This looks like rat poison. Can’t you get anything right?” So Gary ran out and, twenty minutes later, came back with a fr ...

In ninth grade, I excelled in French, and my teacher wanted me to enter a citywide competition. Again, I refused. Why would I ri ...

of us had ever made contact with a horse. One day, we signed up for a lesson in fly fishing. It was taught by a wonderful eighty ...

hot. One time he was undertrained, another time overtrained. His most agonizing loss, and the one that still keeps him up nights ...

sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they ...

ability. People with the fixed mindset tell us, “If you have to work at something, you must not be good at it.” They add, “Thing ...

filtered through the fixed mindset, it’s a great story about three men and a horse, all with deficiencies, who had to try very h ...

I couldn’t take that risk. Low Effort: The Big Risk In the growth mindset, it’s almost inconceivable to want something badly, to ...

message; he has to repeat the same day over and over until he gets the message. Phil Connors (Murray) is a weatherman for a loca ...

people fail, it’s always their fault—they didn’t try hard enough? No! It’s true that effort is crucial—no one can succeed for lo ...

These people may be free of the belief that high effort equals low ability, but they have the other parts of the fixed mindset. ...

mindsets, then proceeded with the course. Although the two groups started off with exactly equal confidence in their computer sk ...

can undo it. Think of a time you were enjoying something—doing a crossword puzzle, playing a sport, learning a new dance. Then i ...

What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new chall ...

When he later went to do them, he found them very difficult, and it took him several days of hard work to crack them open and so ...

my friend kept at it. To improve his skills, he kept reading the comics with his mother and he kept adding up the points when he ...

exam results today I didn’t know whether to cry or just sit down. Heidi will tell you, I looked like I won the lottery (and I fe ...

mindset? Could you march into the worst high school in your state and teach the students college calculus? If you could, then on ...

Benjamin Bloom, an eminent educational researcher, studied 120 outstanding achievers. They were concert pianists, sculptors, Oly ...

IS ARTISTIC ABILITY A GIFT? Despite the widespread belief that intelligence is born, not made, when we really think about it, it ...