How to be better
Carol S . Dweck, the writer of Brainology that is talking about transforming student’s motivation to learn found out that people have fixed mindset or growth mindset all have profound effects on their motivation, learning and school achievement. In other words, those who have a fixed mindsets are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks. Those who with a growth mindsets relish challenges are resilient in the face of setbacks.
This article is talking about two types of people : a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
Those who are fixed mindset hold the view that intelligence is fixed and each person has a certain amount of their abilities that can not be developed. Those who are growth mindset have an opposite view that intelligence can be cultivated through effort and education. As a result, people with fixed mindsets made challenges threatening themselves. But people with growth mindsets getting smarter by confronting challenges and profiting from mistake and persevering in the face of setbacks.
First, we found that different mindsets students cared about different things in school.
About the growth mindset, we found that they often reject learning opportunities and cared more about how smart they will appear. The growth mindset were more interested in learning. Second, there is two radically different beliefs about effort between this two mindset. Growth mindset students believed that the harder they work, the more their
