Mindset - Dweck_ Carol.rtf

said, ‘Good luck to him and good luck to me.’ ” Because of their growth mindset, they did not feel permanently branded. Because ...

Meaning that as a society, we don’t understand relationship skills. Yet everything is at stake in people’s relationships. Maybe ...

In the growth mindset, there may still be that exciting initial combustion, but people in this mindset don’t expect magic. They ...

Michael and Robin had just finished college and were about to get married. He was the bohemian-love-nest type. He imagined that ...

relationship.) Sometimes people with the fixed mindset blind themselves to problems in the partner or the relationship so they w ...

burst. They were both mentally hurling traits right and left. According to Wile, they were both thinking: Brenda is boring, Jack ...

process. Through counseling, Bill came to understand how, as the child of alcoholic parents, he had learned to lead a dual life. ...

From that time until her death twenty-five years later, we became closer and closer. As lively as each of us was, we came even m ...

when she lashed out, he calmed her down and made her talk things through with him. Over time, she learned to skip the yelling an ...

social circle would be impoverished. There was, however, one thing she would not put up with: People who made her feel bad about ...

Underneath it all, shy people may be wonderful and interesting, but they often can’t show it with someone new. And they know it. ...

Wetzler slowly helped George get over his exclusive focus on being judged. Jean, he came to see, was not out to judge and humili ...

everyday kids with a fixed mindset think about violent revenge. We gave eighth-grade students in one of our favorite schools a s ...

fantasies. So he’s worked for the filmmaker Michael Moore on Bowling for Columbine and he’s set up an innovative website where b ...

embarking on an initiative to build student motivation based on [growth] feedback. Yours, Stan Davis Haim Ginott, the renowned c ...

No parent thinks, “I wonder what I can do today to undermine my children, subvert their effort, turn them off learning, and limi ...

parents were lavishing on their kids in the hope of encouraging confidence and achievement? You’re so smart. You’re so talented. ...

questions that made her reflect on the effort she put into studying and on how she has improved from the year before. Last year, ...

How do you make a child feel secure before a test or performance? The same principle applies. Reassuring children about their in ...

The fourth (she has the ability) may be the most dangerous message of all. Does ability automatically take you where you want to ...