Carol Dweck’s Mindsets are an excellent way to understand our own personalities but particularly kids and how to help them in their development. This is a really good synopsis of what’s involved
Yesterday, at the Wellington Festival of Education, I had the pleasure of listening to Carol Dweck speak on her research with regards to Mindsets – Fixed and Growth.
Carol Dweck explained we hold both these mindsets, simultaneously, which creates a psychological battle on 3 main fronts:
1. The two mindsets have two different goals
- FM – doesn’t like looking dumb and therefore is risk averse
- GM – likes getting smarter so focus on learning
2. The two mindsets have different views of effort
- FM – being smart is easy and therefore should come naturally
- GM – effort is part of the process therefore staying with problems or confusion longer
3. The two mindsets have different views of failure
- FM – runs away from making mistakes
- GM sees mistakes as part of the learning process
Whilst I have always loved her simple but beautiful idea of two Mindsets, I have had issues…
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