Carol Dweck

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…

Because, I read every day it got me thinking, if what I read really matters. Due to a class assignment, I read three articles which were, “What Sticks” by Dan and Chip Heath, “Brainology” by Carol S. Dweck, and “Four Kinds Of Reading” by Donald Hall. I found all the readings extremely interesting and inspirational. “What Sticks” has some very interesting concepts. The concepts are not something a person regularly thinks about. The article demonstrates these concepts as six steps to help to make…

changing. You are either good at it or not. If you fail, there are no retakes because in their minds if they didn’t understand the first time they are never going to understand. People with this mindset tend to be less efficient according to Carol Dweck. Carol Dweck is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation. Her research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success. In the book “Physical Constraints” she explains how she did an early study on 5-7…

Growth Mindset Growth mindset is the belief that you can improve upon your abilities through practice and effort, as opposed to a fixed mindset in which one believes their abilities are unchangeable (Dweck, 2006). Students with fixed mindset believe intelligence is static and tend to desire looking smart, therefore they avoid challenges, give up easily, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful feedback, and are threatened by others’ success. Students with a fixed mindset report feeling dumb when…

In the article titled “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn” the author Carol S. Dweck informs us about the two different types of mindsets people have about intelligence. Dweck delegates that there is two different mindsets; fixed and growth mindsets. Dweck states that fixed mindset is when someone believes that you are born with a certain amount of intelligence. On the other hand, a person with a growth mindset believes that in order to be intelligent you have to work hard…

I was naïve to think that I would pass that exam with flying colors. Reflecting on that test I started to develop a “fixed mindset” as Carol Dweck calls it. In the article, “The Perils and Promises of Praise” by Carol S. Dweck asserts, “In the fixed mindset, students care first and foremost about how they’ll be judged: smart or not smart. Repeatedly, students with these mind-set reject opportunities to learn if they might make mistakes…

Throughout my life, I have been willing to learn. When it comes to school I have a growth mindset, because I have always been willing to hear others’ points of view. Carol Dweck and her colleagues believe that learning is really a function of attitude, grit and perseverance, rather than natural talent, and that mindset can be changed (Dweck 4). Someone's mindset can either prevent changes from happening or allow new skills to blossom. Anyone can learn something new if he or she is willing to…

Rough Draft In “Brainology”, Carol Dweck talks about how the many different types of students work for their educational goals. Also how many of them go through workshops to experiment in the project Dweck is trying to make everyone realize. As for me, I am slightly different from the students Dweck talks about, I only have one other sibling going to school that knows what I have to go through. Throughout my life I’ve experienced many lectures by the people I love and by strangers, but little…

In the article “Brainology”, Carol S. Dweck, writes about the transformation of students’ motivation when it’s time to learn. She talks about how brains constantly change with learning. The motivation students have and others lack on achieving challenges. Dweck explains how there are two types of mindsets; the growing mindset and the fixed mindset. The growing mindset students put in work and do not give up on setbacks unlike fixed mindset students who do not feel comfortable with challenges.…

are or aren’t good at something based on your inherent nature because it is just who you are. However, people with the growth mindset challenge themselves, take charge of their learning and review mistakes until they understand them. According to Carol Dweck, these two different mindsets lead to very different behaviors and results. This shows that the harder you work, the more your ability will grow. I believe that I have a growth mindset because of the experience in education. I see that my…