In reading Dweck’s research involving the two basic mindsets that shape our lives, I believe I fall into the fixed mindset majority of the time. One example of this is academically. If I were to do poorly on a test, I would only care about what my grade was instead of learning what I did wrong. In the article, she conduct a test with adolescents regarding both mindsets. She found that the effort-praised kids enjoyed working on more challenging problems as opposed to the ability-praised kids. I would not want to work on more challenging problems if I am not forced to, because the reward of intelligence is not enough for me. Another example of my fixed mindset is when I am working at a job. If I were to mess up and be criticized, I would not
