Carol Dweck on Fixed and Growth Mindset

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success.  She has held professorships at Columbia University and Harvard University, has lectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. 

In this episode, Carol and Eric discuss her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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In This Interview, Carol Dweck and I Discuss Fixed and Growth Mindset and …

• Her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• How in the growth mindset we believe in our ability to grow and change
• In the fixed mindset we become afraid to not know or to fail
• Listening to and accepting what our minds think
• Learning to talk back to our default mindset
• Recognizing that we have a choice of our mindset
• How we can have a fixed and growth mindset in different areas of our lives
• A growth mindset doesn’t say that there aren’t differences in skills and ability
• How people with the fixed mindset are not inspired by role models
• The mindset approach can be used in regards to personality
• That teenagers that are taught the growth mindset are less likely to become depressed
• Learning to use the growth mindset
• In a growth mindset we can see criticism as feedback, as a way to change
• Relationships grow better in a growth mindset

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