Amidst the dawn of civilization, the notions of mindsets have caused several individuals to claim that intelligence was underlined by innate factors, whereas others objected that intellect is a mere reflection of practice and dedication. Henceforth, Carol S. Dweck later clarified and proposed that these two ideals of intelligence serve as fixed and growth mindsets. Furthermore, her research validates that fixed mindsets are quite limited and do not serve growth towards intellectual stimulation.…
Bringing Out a Customer Service Mindset in Your Staff Coaching a team of any size to deliver exceptional customer service can be accomplished by focusing on three concepts. These concepts are culture building, training, and team appreciation. Build a company culture that has a customer service mindset as the first priority. Hire friendly people. Demonstrate great customer service and accept no less from any of your team leaders or crew members. Discuss what makes good customer service as part…
When a person has an epiphany after a life changing event, they will act upon themselves to change their mindset. In Carol Dweck’s Brainology article she establishes growth mindset. People who use this mindset in their lives do not allow themselves to stop trying even though they face challenges. A growth mindset is knowing hard work and dedication will lead to a person’s goals. In “ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” the main character Christopher has obstacles that were…
How important is mindset in achieving success Why is that some people succeed very easily and others do not reach anywhere close to success? While hard work, persistence and consistency plays a role in us achieving success, it is our mindset that sets us apart. We all have voices inside our heads that sometimes tells us – we cannot do something or the skills required for the task is not in us. This kind of thinking is simply not true and needs to be overcome before we can start our journey…
Positive Mindsets are Positive There are many reasons why positive thinking is beneficial such as it maximizes potential, allows new skills to form, and can help people have more success according to the article “How Your Beliefs Can Sabotage Your Behavior” by James Clear. Positive thinking is a mental attitude in which people expect good results and a fixed mindset is the opposite where people think they can’t get better at something. To start off, positive thinking is…
Mindset Essay ` In life I have always had dreams. When I was little, I always wanted to play in the NBA, or be a superhero just like your average little boy would. As I progressed through my teenage life everything began to become so real, I begin to realize my past dreams would never become true and that I then had to become more realistic about what I really wanted to do with my life. On August 6th, 2013 something happened in my life that made me realize just what I wanted to do with my life.…
The biggest change I have made this semester is taking on a creator mindset/attitude. You could ask anyone that knows me and they would say I have a pessimistic attitude. I would always joke and say I’m a pessimist because I’m either right or I’m pleasantly surprised. Simple having the negative thoughts floating around in my head constantly has certainly been a dead weight holding me down. Your attitude is something that only you have control over and you are the only one that can change it.…
It's actually quite simple. It's your mindset. Your mindset is the attitude that you have toward something. And your mindset is the deciding factor in whether or not you'll actually achieve the success that you're looking for. You can have a negative or a positive mindset. People who have negative attitudes usually see the reasons why something can't be achieved and these people are self-limiting when it comes to success. But people with positive mindsets see the problems in a task and look…
Throughout my first semester in college, I have gone back and forth between having a victim mindset and a creator mindset. Some days I am the victim. I was very negative and found the bad in almost everything. I often used my Inner critic when I first started, and I would say things like, “ I’ll never pass, I won’t last two weeks.” Two weeks went by and things were going well. One day we had a powerpoint presentation and I felt eerie about presenting. What made it worse was on the…
Failure Mindsets affect how students perceive failure. Someone with a growth mindset sees failure as a setback and an opportunity to learn. Someone with a fixed mindset may let failure define them and react negatively with apathy, blame, excuses, and depression. Dweck’s research showed that when such people were taught growth mindset skills, their reactions changed (Dweck, 2006) According to Wormeli, recording student scores of “Fs, zeroes, and other indicators of failures” and “spending…