Mindsets: Fixed and Growth Mindsets

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1. MINDSETS Fixed and Growth Mindsets
2. Carol S. Dweck, Stanford professor in social and developmental psychology, argues, "that the way you think determines the course of your life, starting as early as your preschool years."
3. Dweck says that you learn one of two mindsets from your parents, teachers, and the media you consume: a fixed mindset, or a growth mindset.
4. Dweck, C. (2016)
5. Fixed Mindset • Those who believe their talents are innate gifts and fixed. Personal qualities such as intelligence and personality are innate and unchangeable. • If you have a fixed mindset, you feel you must constantly prove yourself • Individuals who believe their talents can be developed, rather than those that believe their talents are in innate gift. • Individual who enact a Growth Mindset, tend to achieve more because they worry less about looking smart and put more energy into learning (Dweck, 2016) Growth Mindset
6. Growth Mindset: People can change and improve When you have a growth mindset, you believe the abilities you’re born with are only a starting point—you can get smarter and improve yourself with hard work, persistence, and the right learning strategies. You have a passion for learning and welcome mistakes as opportunities to learn, and you seek challenges to push yourself.
7. A Growth Mindset Organization • When entire organizations embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling more empowered and committed • They are also supported by the organization for their collaborative and innovative efforts.
8. Success and Failure • Dweck says that in a fixed-mindset world, success is about proving to your self and others that you're smart and talented. • Conversely, success in the growth mindset world is about pushing yourself, learning, and improving. Failure means not seizing an opportunity to learn, not striving for what's important to you, or not reaching for your potential.
9. The Mindsets in Business: Fixed-Mindset Leaders
10. • The mindset of a company’s leader is a key determinant of whether a company fails or succeeds • Fixed-mindset leaders tend to believe they’re geniuses who don’t need strong executive teams, just underlings to implement their ideas. • They’re concerned with looking superior and enhancing their own reputations, rather than serving the company’s best interests. • Dweck explains that their egos drive them to belittle their employees and ignore or deny their own mistakes, which can run their companies into the ground.
11. The Mindsets in Business: Growth-Oriented Leaders
12. The atmosphere in a company with a growth-oriented leader is positive and energized. They believe in everyone’s ability to learn and develop. Dweck says that instead of using their company as a tool for self- promotion, growth-minded leaders focus on improving the company and employees. Most industry-leading companies (regardless of the industry) operate with growth mindsets.
13. How to Develop a Growth Mindset
14. ➢ Disclaimer: Dweck believes that learning about the two mindsets and how they affect you can prompt you to start making changes. • However, completely changing your habitual thought patterns takes time and work. • Often, the fixed mindset hangs around and competes with the growth- oriented ways of thinking that you’re trying to adopt.
15. • Dweck warns that when you reform your mindset, you may temporarily feel like you’re losing your sense of who you are. • However, the growth mindset ultimately frees you from constantly judging yourself so you can be authentic and explore your full potential. • In other words, you won’t be so concerned about who you are, because you’ll be focused on who you can become
16. Mindset Begins With Values
17. • They’re fact-based. Positive values stem from concrete and provable facts, rather than feelings or opinions. • They’re constructive. Positive values benefit you and those around you. • They’re within your control. Positive values don’t rely on external factors.
18. Begin Adjusting Your Mindset
19. 1. Accept that you have a fixed mindset
20. 2. Create a fixed- mindset persona and identify one's triggers
21. 3. Confront your fixed mindset.
22. Mindset is an outgrowth of the age-old nature vs. nurture debate, that is, how much of our ability and personality are hardwired into us, and how much is the result of how we’re raise
23. What Type of Mindset Do You Have?
24. References Dweck, C. S. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House Dweck, C. S. (20??). Summary of: Mindset: The new psychology of success. Shortform.com. Dweck, C. (2016). What does having a “growth mindset” actually mean? Harvard Business Review, 13(2), 2-5. Elliot, A. J., Dweck, C. S., & Yeager, D. S. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of competence and motivation: Theory and application. Guilford Publications.