What is a Growth Mindset?
“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.”
Carol S. Dweck
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves to praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.
Growth Mindset
It's the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, strategies, and help from others. It’s the belief that people can develop their abilities.
Everyone can change and grow through application and experience. A person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.
Growth Mindset Examples:
I want to learn new things and I am eager to take risks.
I failed (action) I’ll try harder next time.
I embrace challenges. I persist in the face of setbacks.
I know this is going to be hard, but I’m going to try anyway. I know I can do this.
I wonder how they did that? Let me try and figure it out or ask them.
Fixed Mindset
Believing that your qualities and abilities are carved in stone and that your potential is determined at birth.
Fixed Mindset Examples:
I’ll stick with what I know. Either I’m good or bad at it.
I’m a failure (identity)I’m dumb.
I avoid challenges. I get defensive or give up easily.
Why bother? There’s no way I’ll figure this out.
This is so easy for him/her. They were born smart