Analysis Of Carol Dweck's Article Brainology

Carol Dweck) clearly explains about the two different mindsets of a human being in her article “Brainology” and “The secret to raising smart kids”. In her article “Brainology” she describes about the differences between the two mindsets Fixed-mindset and Growth-mindset, also she describes about the pros and cons of the two mindsets. In the article “The secret to raising smart kids” she explains which mindset is better for a kid to grow up as and also the benefits of the mindset. If a person doesn’t think about the ability to put effort and overcome to succeed are fixed mindsets. If a person thinks about to put effort and hard work to achieve something are growth mindset. Nowadays students must have a fixed mindset to achieve their goal, as …show more content…
Raising a child with a growth mindset is better than raising with a fixed mindset. As parents have to teach and motivate them for a growth mindset. “In the 1990s, parents and schools decided that the most important thing for kids to have was self-esteem” (Page 3, para 1), teaching the child to have a high self-esteem was a big deal. Most of the student were of low-self-esteem, which will make the lack of knowledge and the ability to learn new things. Parents and teachers started to raise the kids for a high self-esteem, to make them love everyone and be nice to the world. Self-esteem teaches a person how to take care of themselves. And focus on positive thinking. Every parent has to teach their child about the self-esteem. Parents and teachers have to motivate them after and after to make them successful and achieve their goal in their …show more content…
when I was doing my school education in India. We used to have 12 different stages of school, we have 3 division from 1st to 5th is mid division from 6th to 10th is lower secondary and 11th to 12th is higher secondary. When I was in the mid division part of the school my mom used to help me in my studies to pass the examination. But when I started my lower secondary education, I was had to self-taught. My parents taught me how to take care of myself and how to concentrate on education by motivating me with all their pasts from their life. Which made me to focus more on my education. During the start of higher secondary was the time I challenged myself to the most. I had to complete my school with good grades to get a better bachelor program in a college. From my experience I learnt that growth mindset will make a person not only achieve in their life, but also will give a value to their