The Power of BELIEVING that YOU CAN IMPROVECarol Dweck

CHECK YOUR MINDSET

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Two types of Mindset 1. Growth Mindset

2. Fixed Mindset

A SIMPLE IDEA THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

CORE IDEAS

How children coped with challenge and difficulty

• 10 years old kids were given problems

• Problems were slightly too hard for them

TWO SETS OF

CHILDREN WERE

FOUND PRESENT

IN THE CLASS -

BASED ON THEIR

REACTIONS

• "I love a challenge”

• Understood that their abilities

could be developed

• Felt it was tragic, catastrophic

• Their intelligence had been up

for judgment and they failed

FIXED

MINDSETGROWTH

MINDSET

What If they failed a Test?

• Failure = Not smart or talented

• Result oriented (Focus is on next A+)

• Cheat v/s Study – Children would CHEAT next

time

• Look for someone who did worse so that they

can feel good about themselves

• Run from difficulty

• Run from error

• Would not engage with problem

• Failure = Opportunity to grow

• Process oriented (Focus is on learning)

• Not discouraged by the failure

• Position themselves on a learning curve

• Process the errors

• Learn

• Correct it

Tyranny of Now

Power of Yet

FIXED

GROWTH

Brain Electrical ActivityEncounter with ERROR

• Hardly any

activity

• Do not

engage

• Run from

error

• Engage

deeply

• Brain is on

fire with

“YET”

• Process

ERROR,

LEARN &

CORRECT

FIXED MINDSET

• SMART AND TALENTED PEOPLE do not require to put in too much effort & can easily handle difficulties while performing a task

• IF YOU ARE PUTTING IN EFFORT & FACING DIFFICULTIES, then you are just like ORDINARY PEOPLE

GROWTH MINDSET

• Brain become stronger when it grapples with problems

• When you struggle, that’s when NEURONS are making new connection

• STRUGGLING makes you SMARTER

Transforming the meaning of EFFORT & DIFFICULTY

PROCESS that

people engage in

EFFORT

STRATEGIES

FOCUS

PERSEVERANCE

IMPROVEMENT

Do not praise

INTELLIGENCE &

TALENT

REWARD “YET”• Teamed up with game scientists from the

University of Washington to create a new online math game that rewarded yet

• In this game, students were rewarded for effort, strategy and progress

• The usual math game rewards you for getting answers right, right now

• This game rewarded process

• RESULT - more effort, more strategies, more engagement over longer periods of time, and more perseverance when they hit really, really hard problems

https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that

_you_can_improve?language=en

DISCLAIMER

"These slides were created by Aditya Dewadwal, IIM Lucknow, as part of a MBA course "Personal Branding" (www.MBASkills.IN) taught by Prof. Sameer Mathur "