Summary Of The Growth Mindsset By Carol Dweck
Developing a Growth Mindset
Speaker, Carol Dweck, p. 78. In the video, “The Growth Mindset,” she speaks about the power of the words “yet” and “not yet” and how this can ultimately change your outlook or your perspective. Dweck talks about how these words can create two distinct kinds of mindsets. She discusses the effects of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how it affects the newer generation. The way Dweck views a growth and fixed mindset aligns with my beliefs because I believe that if a person has a fixed mindset, it could restrict one’s mentality, preventing them from reaching their full potential. needs reworded, too wordy.
Dweck begins her talk about high school in Chicago. In high school, you got the grade not yet if you were failing a class. She talks about how she believes that, saying “yet” means you are on a learning curve. Dweck speaks about the experiment she conducted. She gives 10-year-olds some problems that are too difficult for them. According to her data, some reacted incredibly positively. The students …show more content…
They said it would be easier to find someone who did worse on the test to make them feel better. Lastly, they wanted to run away from the difficulty. As she continues, she discusses how Moser and her colleagues did an experiment. They decided to measure the brain as they encountered errors. The results show a photo, the photo shows two different models. One is a fixed mindset and the other is a growth mindset. In the fixed mindset it shows lots of green with light yellow in the middle. For the growth mindset it is quite different from the fixed, the growth mindset is covered in red all over. The red represents the errors the brain is processing and learning from. Dweck claimed the neurons in their brain could form new, stronger connections and over time they could become smarter if they learned something challenging and stuck to
Speaker, Carol Dweck, p. 78. In the video, “The Growth Mindset,” she speaks about the power of the words “yet” and “not yet” and how this can ultimately change your outlook or your perspective. Dweck talks about how these words can create two distinct kinds of mindsets. She discusses the effects of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how it affects the newer generation. The way Dweck views a growth and fixed mindset aligns with my beliefs because I believe that if a person has a fixed mindset, it could restrict one’s mentality, preventing them from reaching their full potential. needs reworded, too wordy.
Dweck begins her talk about high school in Chicago. In high school, you got the grade not yet if you were failing a class. She talks about how she believes that, saying “yet” means you are on a learning curve. Dweck speaks about the experiment she conducted. She gives 10-year-olds some problems that are too difficult for them. According to her data, some reacted incredibly positively. The students …show more content…
They said it would be easier to find someone who did worse on the test to make them feel better. Lastly, they wanted to run away from the difficulty. As she continues, she discusses how Moser and her colleagues did an experiment. They decided to measure the brain as they encountered errors. The results show a photo, the photo shows two different models. One is a fixed mindset and the other is a growth mindset. In the fixed mindset it shows lots of green with light yellow in the middle. For the growth mindset it is quite different from the fixed, the growth mindset is covered in red all over. The red represents the errors the brain is processing and learning from. Dweck claimed the neurons in their brain could form new, stronger connections and over time they could become smarter if they learned something challenging and stuck to