Having a growth mindset is someone who doesn't give up off the jump and sees failing as a way to grow and continue their journey to learn, Someone with a fixed mindset is someone who's beliefs are set in stone not wanting to reach their pull potential and rather waste that
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What are the growth and fixed mindsets ?
How do fixed and growth mindsets influence ones motivation to learn ?
How do people with a growth mindset influence peoples ability to learn and grow. People with a growth mindset take their failure and learn from it. They become encouraged to learn from their mistakes and understand that with more effort they can improve.
"the harder it gets the more I have to force myself to read the book and study for the test ." pg 23
people with this mindset will tell themselves to not give up when they feel they are failing.
How do people with a fixed mindset influence peoples ability to learn and grow. You can't learn without failing and learning from it, when having a foxed mindset it stops your ability to expand and grow your brain.
"every situation is evaluated to will I succeed of fail, will I look smart or dumb." pg 6
people with this mindset will tell themselves things that lower their confidence.
How do people with each mindset expire the relationship between failure ands self esteem
How do people with a fixed mindset experience failure and self esteem. they don't let people give feedback when they fail. They believe they can't improve anymore and there is no point in giving second effort.
"i'm a failure, everyone is better than me, I have no life." pg 8
People with a fixed mindset protect their self esteem by only choosing to do things they know they can succeed at. This allows them to avoid failure.
How do people with a growth mindset experience failure and self esteem? People with a growth mindset take failure as a learning experience nobody in life is perfect and everyone comes across a path where they fail and they don't let it take away their confidence.
"if you make a mistake you got to make it right." (33)
This is the belief that if you make a mistake that you learn off of it to fix and make it right
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What are the fixed and growth mindsets / dweck explains that mindset is
dwecks definition of a fixed mindset is believing that your qualities are set in stone
This is the belief that ones born With qualities that can't change. your opinions are permanent
These are abilities that your born with in your DNA and nothing can truly change that, even if you wanted to.
an example of an someone is Billy beanie he thought he was born With so much talent and didn't truly work for his success and it showed when he would fail
Dweck's explanation of a growth mindset is the belief That you can always improve your mind and learn off of failure
This is the belief that people can change and fix the results they could improve on and build off failure.
"based on the belief that your qualities are things you can cultivate through your effort." pg 7
Billy beanies teammate Lenny Dykstra who had a great mindset
