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    Mindset

    Carol Dweck, 2006

    In one paragraph

    Dweck reveals how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area depends on having the right mindset—believing that qualities can be cultivated through effort.

    Also tagged

    Personal Development
    Psychology

    Where this sits in the operating system

    Identity-Based Change

    Purpose & Meaning

    Continuous Improvement Cycles

    Systems Over Goals

    Key insights

    Learning insights extracted from setbacks

    Recognise it early

    The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.

    What goes wrong

    Praising intelligence over effort

    Focus on the process: effort, strategy, and improvement

    Avoiding challenges to protect ego

    Challenges are exciting rather than threateningseek growth opportunities

    Viewing failure as reflection of ability

    Failure is informationextract learning from every setback

    Comparing current ability to others

    Focus on personal growth journey and improvement over time

    Giving up when things get difficult

    Passion for stretching and sticking to itpersistence through difficulty

    The same idea, argued differently

    Angela Duckworth

    James Clear

    David Brooks

    Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack

    The full breakdown

    Before you close this

    Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.

    Reference

    Author
    Carol Dweck
    Published
    2006
    Category
    Self-Help
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