Mindset - Dweck_ Carol.rtf

chance to revise it. He earned a B+ on the assignment (he had been getting C’s and lower). Incidentally, teachers weren’t just t ...

who are cool but are having problems with their schoolwork. Dahlia is having trouble with Spanish, and Chris with math. They vis ...

The other day one of my former grad students told me a story. But first some background. In my field, when you submit a research ...

counters and find them at zero. It made me insecure not to be able to tote up my victories. Even worse, since I was taking more ...

application. I would be very grateful if you could give me some feedback along those lines.” Nobody scoffs at an honest plea for ...

The Number One Draft Choice The last dilemma seemed hard, but, basically, it was solved by a phone call. Now imagine you’re a pr ...

But putting yourself in a growth mindset, what are some new ways you could think and some steps you could take? For example, wha ...

people. And now you’re one of them. You lose all sense of worth. Your partner, who knew you intimately, doesn’t want you anymore ...

Because he now understands what losing means, he takes further steps to avoid it. He starts cheating at Candy Land, Chutes and L ...

of work to make the growth mindset flourish where the fixed mindset has taken root. Effort Gone Awry Sometimes the problem with ...

though I were in ancient Peru.”) You are taught to talk to her this way too. Finally, the counselor strongly urges that your dau ...

Anger Controlling anger is something else that’s a problem for many people. Something triggers their temper and off they go, los ...

onslaught. Meanwhile, you took the silence as evidence that they felt superior, and it fueled your escalation. What can be done? ...

he wanted and he expected it to just continue. When it didn’t, he became even angrier and more punitive than before. Mickey had ...

wouldn’t have felt. Did changing to a growth mindset solve all my problems? No. But I know that I have a different life because ...

Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround (New York: HarperCollins, 2002). “All my life I’ve been playing”: ia Ham ...

the Weight Rooms of Paris, There Is a Chic New Fragrance: Sweat,” The New York Times, June 21, 2004. Seabiscuit: aura Hillenbran ...

Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1979/1999), 18–20. Jackson Pollock: lizabeth ...

Times, October 13, 2003. (During this series, the Globe sportswriters’ columns appeared in the Times and vice versa.) Let’s take ...

Unstoppable, 212. Iciss Tillis is a college: iv Bernstein, “The Picture Doesn’t Tell the Story,” The New York Times, January 24, ...