Mindset The New Psychology of Success

No discussion of growth mindset would be complete without mentioning that growth mindset is the brainchild of my colleague Carol Dweck in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University today you'll learn how she discovered growth mindset and you will learn how others have taken that discovery and expanded upon it and especially its application in and out of the classroom.

The research paper I'd like to discuss briefly that beautifully embodies the runway that led to the discovery of growth mindset is paper from Dr. Carol Duac as well as her colleague Claudia Mueller and the title of the paper essentially says it all the title is praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance

The paper was published in 1998 but just two years prior in 1996 there was a survey of parents asking to what extent do you believe that intelligence is fixed? An 85% answered that they thought that intelligence was fixed

This paper was really ahead of its time and it's really what seeded the entire field of growth mindset and the understanding of what that is

The study I'm referring to is a study first author, Mangle's last author No surprise, Carol Dweck And it's entitled Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social-cognitive neuroscience model

But I had to look back and sort of ask myself like, OK, how did this come about? Even the books, like everything, whether it's Nonviolent Communication or Carol Dweck's Mindset, were all books my wife introduced me to.

Satya Nadella's wife actually shared with him Carol Dweck's book on mindset.

And he was so inspired by this, he decided, I'm really going to take this mindset idea and see if we can shift the mindset culture of this organization through a lot of these practices and policies that we've been talking about today.

Carol Dweck, who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and author of the book Mindset, in a TED talk, described a high school where if a student was not successful in passing a class, they needed to graduate, they didn't receive a failing grade such as an F or an E, they received the grade not yet.

That I've ever given to read the book mindset. That will change your life if you read it and do it and live accordingly. Truly, it's the most important book in the English language.

So Carol Dweck is the mother of the growth mindset concept. And this is a concept that people can grow. You can gain new skills, new knowledge.

But growth mindset is a pretty sexy phrase, right?

And so growth mindset ended up being the terminology we all know and love today.

She used to call it implicit theories of incremental--I know, right? I can't even remember. It was like incremental intelligence theory.

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Yeah, so obviously the Carol's rec book, Growth Mindset is fantastic.

I think Growth Mindset is one, I think the concept itself is helpful, right? Just to understand that there's such a thing as a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. I think even that concept teaches you something.