Mindset
Mindset: Changing The Way You Think To Fulfil Your Potential by Carol Dweck
🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences
If you view yourself in the perspective of a growth mindset - i.e you can learn and develop - this will profoundly impact your life.
There is a big difference in the fixed mindset of believing your qualities are carved in stone where there is an urgency to prove yourself over and over, and the growth mindset where you thrive of challenge.
We should praise effort, strategies, perseverance and improvements not intelligence and talent. This process praise builds resilience.
🎨 Impressions
How I Discovered It
This book is viewed as a classic in many ways. It is one that I thought I would have to read to better my understanding of mind-set to assist in approaching problems.
However, I was disappointed as it personally didn't give me loads of new thoughts and information. It did emphasis the importance of a growth mindset embedding this approach more thoroughly in my mind however there are repetitive, long-winded elements and studies which are not needed in order to understand the main premise.
Who Should Read It?
Anyone who has heard of 'the growth mindset' but is unsure exactly what it means, how you can practice it or to gain a better understanding first-hand behind the ideas. If you think talent is all you need, or a requirement for great things, this provides an alternative where success is not tied to innate talents but instead something that can be cultivated.
☘️ How the Book Changed Me
Given we are all born with a growth mindset, somewhere along the line we gather a fixed one. Babies know no limits, they want to learn anything and everything. We need to get back in touch with our growth mindset.
View failure as a one-time, external event. Have the attitude where you seek to resolve it next time. This will assist in developing the growth mindset.
Don't avoid challenging or difficult situations - these will help us grow and develop. Get satisfaction from pushing yourself.
Instead of giving employees an award for the smartest idea of praise for brilliant performance, they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new. For being undaunted by setbacks, for being open to acting upon criticism. Maybe it could be praised for not needing constant praise.
We can always learn more. The best teachers are those who believe they are not finished products and are using teaching to grow themselves as well.
'The Talent Mindset' - when encourage and place faith in talent, t Talent mindset, which is a fixed mindset, we do not admit or correct mistakes and deficiencies.
There are significant rewards available for results. But, this now means, we have a workforce full of people who need constant reassurance and can’t take criticism. Dweck believes, this is not a recipe for success in business, where taking on challenges, showing persistence, and admitting and correcting mistakes are essential.
We have the choice to determine our mindset. We can turn setbacks into success. When we enter a different mindset, we enter a different world.
A persons true potential is unknown. Why hide deficiencies when can overcome them? Why waste tie proving your greatness when could be getting better
✍️ My Top 3 Quotes
In the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.
