Carol dweck

Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Back in March I blogged about becoming a growth mindset school following our staff launch event. Since that time we have been very busy preparing to roll out the ethos to the whole school. Here…

I just finished “Mindset” by Carol Dweck, an awesome book about motivation and perspective. One central concept from Mindset is that “the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you…

Mindset dr.carol s.dweck

Carol Dweck's book delves into the concept of mindset, explaining the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how your beliefs about your abilities can impact your success.

Carol Dweck. Mindset: changing the way you think to fulfil your potential - book summary. The real difference between the fixed and the growth mindset.

It is probably one of the most-quoted books in the last ten years. And for good reasons. It has helped us make sense of the differences between intelligence and smart thinking, and how growth as a mindset is a likely path for building grit, but, as Angela Duckworth said, we do need more: The correlation isn't perfect, but this suggests to me that one of the things that makes you gritty is having a growth mind-set. The attitude “I can get better if I try harder” should help make you a…

“You don’t know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.”