Brainology By Carol Dweck Summary

In article “Brainology-Transforming students’ motivate to learn”, Carol Dweck describes two different types of mindset and how they affect student's learning profoundly. These types of mindset are students' belief about themselves or the way they use their basic abilities. Students with "fixed mindset" are stuck with what they know to keep their confidence; they are afraid of challenges and devastated by failures. In contrast, students with " growth mindset" believe their personality, intelligence and skill have come from practice; they assume that anyone can good at anything if they learn things with effort. By the amount of time I have heard people around saying they are bad at “ this" or at "that" and my own experience, I totally agree with the author that the
They further assume that success is simply a result of this inherent talent, and as a result, they often avoid failure in order to maintain an aura of infallibility. For instance, when school gets harder, students with fixed mindset are more affected by setbacks and then, they are more likely to give up or perform poorly after a failure. So what keeps the fixed mindset in place? Prasing kids for their intelligence is one big reason! Many parents around the world very often praise their kids for ability or performace, which make these students very afraid to disappoint them by falling, and as a result, they view their failures as the evidence of low intelligence. In the other words, telling children they are smart can make them less likely to view themself as intelligent; that is because they are being taught their performmance is a definitive test of intelligence, and the result is they just want to quit after a setback. Another reason is lacking of awareness of the growth mindset. I remember last five years, when I was still in my country and I had participated in a dacing contest. At that time, my teachers, parents and fellow constantly