Dweck Summary

In her essay Dweck (2007) points out that by praising the student’s intelligence we are encouraging them for self-defeating. When my teacher told me, “you are doing great!.” In fact, he was praising my intelligence, but I knew that I am not good at playing soccer. I was not inherent at playing soccer. I think he should have praised my effort not my intelligence.
Dweck points out that many think intelligence is set or fixed. She argues about her research that she has done. She argues about two types of mentalities on students. There are students who think they are innate intelligent and they believe in their intelligence. They expect awards because they are intelligent not for their effort. These students are called fixed mindset. Students in fixed mindset reject opportunities because they scare that how they will be judged. Whenever they make mistakes they try to hid their mistakes instead of fixing them. They don’t try,
Dweck theory of mindset and praise reminds me while I was in school at sixth grade in sport time we were going out to play soccer. I was playing soccer with my classmate at least once a week. Although we had a muddy soccer ground, we were playing soccer. Even though I was not good at playing soccer, my trainer was praising my intelligence. Because I knew that I was slow I couldn’t tackle and I was not fast enough to be a good soccer player. One day we had a soccer competition with another class. We started well because we had a few talented players in our team so in the first forty-five minutes we scored two goals. When we started the second half after fifteen minutes break. Our team was the batter side. since I was not a good soccer player they put me on defense so my job was to prevent our opponent players so they can’t score