![]() ![]() How you frame things really mattersĭweck starts by talking about a high school in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses to graduate. Many of her ideas will also resonate for thought leaders. In a fascinating TED talk, Dweck talked about the power of ‘yet’, and how we can encourage children to develop a growth mindset. They see failure as absolute, and a threat to their intelligence or general world view, rather than simply a temporary setback that can be overcome through more work. ![]() Those with a fixed mindset, by contrast, believe that intelligence and/or talent are fixed. They see mistakes as a way to learn, and questions they cannot answer as things that they do not know ‘yet’. Those with a growth mindset believe that they can learn and develop their skills. She has described two forms of mindset, fixed and growth: Professor Carol Dweck is a researcher at the University of Stanford who studies what she calls ‘mindset’. ![]()
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