Mindset: by Carol Dweck PHD | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The New Psychology of Success
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Author(s)Adept Summaries
ISBN / ASINB010D5DYFE
ISBN-13978B010D5DYF4
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
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Mindset: by Carol Dweck PHD | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The New Psychology of Success. If you are looking for a full copy of this outstanding book, this can be found back on the Amazon search page.
What you get from an Adept Summary & Analysis:
• An overview of the entire book
• Key takeaways from the book
• Easily accessible, easy to remember information
• Actionable and new ideas
A preview:
In early research of how people deal with failure, Dweck was surprised by some students’ reaction. Given a series of puzzles of increasing difficulty, some students became excited when stumped. They loved the challenge even if they didn’t succeed at it.
At first, Dweck couldn’t understand how anyone could love failure. Later, through her work, she learned that the difference between the happily challenged students and herself was one of differing mindsets. Her mindset had been fixed while the happy students’ mindset was one of growth.
She had always considered intelligence as fixed. You are smart or you are not smart. The students with a growth mindset acted as if intelligence could be improved through learning. They weren’t failing at the puzzles, they were learning.
Alfred Binet, who invented the IQ test, believed intelligence was not a fixed commodity. He felt we can increase our attention, memory, and judgment and become more intelligent.
In demonstrating how students with different mindsets react to their worlds, they were asked to react to a paragraph describing someone’s bad day: a low grade on an important test, a parking ticket, and a friend not available to commiserate. Those with fixed mindsets said they’d feel like losers and cope by getting drunk or breaking something. Those with growth mindsets said they’d study harder next time and be more careful parking...
Mindset: by Carol Dweck PHD | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The New Psychology of Success. If you are looking for a full copy of this outstanding book, this can be found back on the Amazon search page.
What you get from an Adept Summary & Analysis:
• An overview of the entire book
• Key takeaways from the book
• Easily accessible, easy to remember information
• Actionable and new ideas
A preview:
In early research of how people deal with failure, Dweck was surprised by some students’ reaction. Given a series of puzzles of increasing difficulty, some students became excited when stumped. They loved the challenge even if they didn’t succeed at it.
At first, Dweck couldn’t understand how anyone could love failure. Later, through her work, she learned that the difference between the happily challenged students and herself was one of differing mindsets. Her mindset had been fixed while the happy students’ mindset was one of growth.
She had always considered intelligence as fixed. You are smart or you are not smart. The students with a growth mindset acted as if intelligence could be improved through learning. They weren’t failing at the puzzles, they were learning.
Alfred Binet, who invented the IQ test, believed intelligence was not a fixed commodity. He felt we can increase our attention, memory, and judgment and become more intelligent.
In demonstrating how students with different mindsets react to their worlds, they were asked to react to a paragraph describing someone’s bad day: a low grade on an important test, a parking ticket, and a friend not available to commiserate. Those with fixed mindsets said they’d feel like losers and cope by getting drunk or breaking something. Those with growth mindsets said they’d study harder next time and be more careful parking...
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