A Stanford researcher, Carol Dweck, has been studying motivation and perseverance since the 1960´s, and found that children fall into two categories. Those with a fixed mindset, and Those with a growth mindset. She supports her argument by a research, were kids with a ¨Fixed mindset¨ are ¨stereotyped¨ by ¨ If you have to work hard, you don't have the ability¨. Kids with a ¨Growth mindset¨ are ¨stereotyped¨ by ¨ The more you challenge yourself, the smarter you become¨. In the article her argument is based of how children learn to develop their mindsets. Dweck, begins by gathering up 5th graders, randomly divided them into two groups and had them work on problems from an IQ test. She than praised the first group with a ¨Wow, that´s
