Dweck's Mindset

When I first read Mindset by Dweck I realized that I had a fixed mindset. There was sports I wasn’t trying because I thought I would be horrible at them. Dweck uses a variety of structural elements to help make the concept of mindsets relatable from big picture organization like chapters, sections, and subsections to small picture approaches including word choices and sentence structure. Dweck has sections and subsections in all her chapters. Dweck uses these to transition and increase the readability. One example is on page 91. The subsection is called Character. Dweck uses this subsection to increase readability. She uses this section to sum up the other sections. Another example is on page 114. The section is called Fixed-Mindset Leaders In Action. She uses this section to transition. She uses this to transition into talking about leaders. Another structural element she uses is word choice. Word choice is important in this book. Dweck uses word choice to make the book more relatable. One example of word choice is on page 45 Dweck says, “ Because every day new and larger dragons come along and, as things get harder, maybe the ability they proved yesterday is not up to today’s task.” Dweck made this sentence more relatable by starting the sentence with because. She knows not to …show more content…
One example is on page 48. The sentences Dweck wrote is,” What now? Your child falls ill and plunges you into debt. There goes the house. Your spouse runs off with the nest egg and leaves you with the children and bills. Forget the night school classes.” She writes like this because it's how people would talk. Another example is on page 19. Dweck says,” Put them on a pedestal. Make them feel perfect. Worship them.” Short and straight forward. The only reason she write like this is because she is trying to relate to the younger audience. If she was writing to her fellow psychologists she would not be using these sentence