Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001U5P7CK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 511 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carol S. Her scholarly book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship. She has been the William B. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. Dweck, Ph.D., is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researcher
A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as well, fixed. 28)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford. From Publishers Weekly Mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone," says the Oxford American Dictionary. Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, an
Concept is brilliant, excecution not so much I was looking forward to reading this for months, and had a mixed reaction when I finally did. The book is valuable for its conceit: that there are two types of mind-sets; the growth and the fixed. The growth is the one to have if you want to thrive in life, career, relationships, etc. People are formed early on into one mindset or the other, but can change to the valuable growth mindset if they put themselves to the task. This is incredibly important and the book's value stands on this assertion alone. All of this can be summed up in a sing. Peng Jin said Interesting theory, yet lacking depth. I first came across the author in a TED video. Her talk about how "not yet" generates far more power than "fail" was interesting and I decided to buy her book to further read into her studies. The book in general is an interesting piece of work. I like the way she describes the "growth mindset". However, most of the book seems to focus on discussing the difference between "fixed mindset" and "growth mindset" applied to different fields. So it does get very predictable and tedious. There is far not enough discussion about how to better develo. "I think, therefore I am." according to DKH. Love this book! Lots of insights and it makes sense. How tightly do we cling to our ideas about life? About ourselves? Can people change or not? How do we react to failure-- devastation or just a part of normal living? Reading this is changing much about my way of thinking. The author started life with a static, limiting understanding of herself and life. In studying various people in her career as a psychologist, she began to see that people respond to negative things in one of two ways: with despair or with hope. She explains how we get th
A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. Perhaps even more important, she shows us how we can change our mindset at any stage of life to achieve true success and fulfillment. She reveals how creative geniuses in all fields-music, literature, science, sports, business-apply the growth mindset to achieve results. You must prove yourself over and over, try