Dr. Dweck Fixed Mindset Summary

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Dr. Dweck’s research that was focused on growth mindset and fixed mindset, had a lot of useful information. One of the take away of her ideas was that people can always expect to do well if they have a growth mindset. People are in those two categories and can always change. Most of the time fixed mindset will need to change to a growth mindset. Dr. Dweck said that people are expecting to do well if they are expecting something back as reward. Keeping the “not yet” term in mind seemed to work for not only kids but for even relationships. She mentioned of a person who sent her a message telling her that she used Dr. Dweck’s advice and it worked for her relationship, her students and family. Dr. Dweck also said that not yet people will know that

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