{"product_id":"mindset-isbn-9781400062751","title":"Mindset","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, \u003ci\u003eGatesNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a \u003ci\u003efixed mindset\u003c\/i\u003e—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a \u003ci\u003egrowth mindset\u003c\/i\u003e—those who believe that abilities can be developed. \u003ci\u003eMindset\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”\u003cb\u003e—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of \u003ci\u003eTeaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Library Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Everyone should read this book.”\u003cb\u003e—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of \u003ci\u003eMade to Stick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”\u003cb\u003e—Po Bronson, author of \u003ci\u003eNurtureShock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read \u003ci\u003eMindset\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e—Guy Kawasaki, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Start 2.0\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol S. Dweck, Ph.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and has won nine lifetime achievement awards for her research. She addressed the United Nations on the eve of their new global development plan and has advised governments on educational and economic policies. Her work has been featured in almost every major national publication\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand she has appeared on \u003ci\u003eToday, Good Morning America, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e20\/20\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE MINDSETS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    As a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that   changed my life. I was obsessed with understanding how people cope with   failures, and I decided to study it by watching how students grapple   with hard problems. So I brought children one at a time to a room in   their school, made them comfortable, and then gave them a series of   puzzles to solve. The first ones were fairly easy, but the next ones   were hard. As the students grunted, perspired, and toiled, I watched   their strategies and probed what they were thinking and feeling. I   expected differences among children in how they coped with the   difficulty, but I saw something I never expected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Confronted with the hard puzzles, one ten-year-old boy pulled up his   chair, rubbed his hands together, smacked his lips, and cried out, “I   love a challenge!” Another, sweating away on these puzzles, looked up   with a pleased expression and said with authority, “You know, I was   hoping this would be informative!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    What’s wrong with them? I wondered. I always thought you coped with   failure or you didn’t cope with failure. I never thought anyone loved   failure. Were these alien children or were they on to something?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical   moment in their lives. These children were my role models. They   obviously knew something I didn’t and I was determined to figure it   out—to understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a   gift.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    What did they know? They knew that human qualities, such as   intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. And that’s   what they were doing—getting smarter. Not only weren’t they discouraged   by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they   were learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I, on the other hand, thought human qualities were carved in stone. You   were smart or you weren’t, and failure meant you weren’t. It was that   simple. If you could arrange successes and avoid failures (at all   costs), you could stay smart. Struggles, mistakes, perseverance were   just not part of this picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Whether human qualities are things that can be cultivated or things   that are carved in stone is an old issue. What these beliefs mean for   you is a new one: What are the consequences of thinking that your   intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to   something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait? Let’s first look in on   the age-old, fiercely waged debate about human nature and then return   to the question of what these beliefs mean for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    WHY DO PEOPLE DIFFER?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Since the dawn of time, people have thought differently, acted   differently, and fared differently from each other. It was guaranteed   that someone would ask the question of why people differed—why some   people are smarter or more moral—and whether there was something that   made them permanently different. Experts lined up on both sides. Some   claimed that there was a strong physical basis for these differences,   making them unavoidable and unalterable. Through the ages, these   alleged physical differences have included bumps on the skull   (phrenology), the size and shape of the skull (craniology), and, today,   genes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Others pointed to the strong differences in people’s backgrounds,   experiences, training, or ways of learning. It may surprise you to know   that a big champion of this view was Alfred Binet, the inventor of the   IQ test. Wasn’t the IQ test meant to summarize children’s unchangeable   intelligence? In fact, no. Binet, a Frenchman working in Paris in the   early twentieth century, designed this test to identify children who   were not profiting from the Paris public schools, so that new   educational programs could be designed to get them back on track.   Without denying individual differences in children’s intellects, he   believed that education and practice could bring about fundamental   changes in intelligence. Here is a quote from one of his major books,   Modern Ideas About Children, in which he summarizes his work with   hundreds of children with learning difficulties:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A few modern philosophers . . . assert that an individual’s   intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased.   We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. . . . With   practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our   attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more   intelligent than we were before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Who’s right? Today most experts agree that it’s not either–or. It’s not   nature or nurture, genes or environment. From conception on, there’s a   constant give and take between the two. In fact, as Gilbert Gottlieb,   an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment   cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment   to work properly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    At the same time, scientists are learning that people have more   capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever   thought. Of course, each person has a unique genetic endowment. People   may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it   is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the   rest of the way. Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of   intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve   expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.”   Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it’s not always the people who   start out the smartest who end up the smartest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR YOU? THE TWO MINDSETS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    It’s one thing to have pundits spouting their opinions about scientific   issues. It’s another thing to understand how these views apply to you.   For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for   yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can   determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you   accomplish the things you value. How does this happen? How can a simple   belief have the power to transform your psychology and, as a result,   your life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed   mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you have   only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a   certain moral character—well, then you’d better prove that you have a   healthy dose of them. It simply wouldn’t do to look or feel deficient   in these most basic characteristics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Some of us are trained in this mindset from an early age. Even as a   child, I was focused on being smart, but the fixed mindset was really   stamped in by Mrs. Wilson, my sixth-grade teacher. Unlike Alfred Binet,   she believed that people’s IQ scores told the whole story of who they   were. We were seated around the room in IQ order, and only the   highest-IQ students could be trusted to carry the flag, clap the   erasers, or take a note to the principal. Aside from the daily   stomachaches she provoked with her judgmental stance, she was creating   a mindset in which everyone in the class had one consuming goal—look   smart, don’t look dumb. Who cared about or enjoyed learning when our   whole being was at stake every time she gave us a test or called on us   in class?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I’ve seen so many people with this one consuming goal of proving   themselves—in the classroom, in their careers, and in their   relationships. Every situation calls for a confirmation of their   intelligence, personality, or character. Every situation is evaluated:   Will I succeed or fail? Will I look smart or dumb? Will I be accepted   or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    But doesn’t our society value intelligence, personality, and character?   Isn’t it normal to want these traits? Yes, but . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    There’s another mindset in which these traits are not simply a hand   you’re dealt and have to live with, always trying to convince yourself   and others that you have a royal flush when you’re secretly worried   it’s a pair of tens. In this mindset, the hand you’re dealt is just the   starting point for development. This growth mindset is based on the   belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through   your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way—in their   initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments—everyone can   change and grow through application and experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that   anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or   Beethoven? No, but they believe that a person’s true potential is   unknown (and unknowable); that it’s impossible to foresee what can be   accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Did you know that Darwin and Tolstoy were considered ordinary children?   That Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers of all time, was completely   uncoordinated and graceless as a child? That the photographer Cindy   Sherman, who has been on virtually every list of the most important   artists of the twentieth century, failed her first photography course?   That Geraldine Page, one of our greatest actresses, was advised to give   it up for lack of talent?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    You can see how the belief that cherished qualities can be developed   creates a passion for learning. Why waste time proving over and over   how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide   deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or   partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who   will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true,   instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for   stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s   not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the   mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most   challenging times in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A VIEW FROM THE TWO MINDSETS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    To give you a better sense of how the two mindsets work, imagine—as   vividly as you can—that you are a young adult having a really bad day:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    One day, you go to a class that is really important to you and that you   like a lot. The professor returns the midterm papers to the class. You   got a C+. You’re very disappointed. That evening on the way back to   your home, you find that you’ve gotten a parking ticket. Being really   frustrated, you call your best friend to share your experience but are   sort of brushed off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    What would you think? What would you feel? What would you do?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    When I asked people with the fixed mindset, this is what they said:   “I’d feel like a reject.” “I’m a total failure.” “I’m an idiot.” “I’m a   loser.” “I’d feel worthless and dumb—everyone’s better than me.” “I’m   slime.” In other words, they’d see what happened as a direct measure of   their competence and worth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    This is what they’d think about their lives: “My life is pitiful.” “I   have no life.” “Somebody upstairs doesn’t like me.” “The world is out   to get me.” “Someone is out to destroy me.” “Nobody loves me, everybody   hates me.” “Life is unfair and all efforts are useless.” “Life stinks.   I’m stupid. Nothing good ever happens to me.” “I’m the most unlucky   person on this earth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Excuse me, was there death and destruction, or just a grade, a ticket,   and a bad phone call?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Are these just people with low self-esteem? Or card-carrying   pessimists? No. When they aren’t coping with failure, they feel just as   worthy and optimistic—and bright and attractive—as people with the   growth mindset.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    So how would they cope? “I wouldn’t bother to put so much time and   effort into doing well in anything.” (In other words, don’t let anyone   measure you again.) “Do nothing.” “Stay in bed.” “Get drunk.” “Eat.”   “Yell at someone if I get a chance to.” “Eat chocolate.” “Listen to   music and pout.” “Go into my closet and sit there.” “Pick a fight with   somebody.” “Cry.” “Break something.” “What is there to do?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    What is there to do! You know, when I wrote the vignette, I   intentionally made the grade a C+, not an F. It was a midterm rather   than a final. It was a parking ticket, not a car wreck. They were “sort   of brushed off,” not rejected outright. Nothing catastrophic or   irreversible happened. Yet from this raw material the fixed mindset   created the feeling of utter failure and paralysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    When I gave people with the growth mindset the same vignette, here’s   what they said. They’d think:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “I need to try harder in class, be more careful when parking the car,   and wonder if my friend had a bad day.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “The C+ would tell me that I’d have to work a lot harder in the class,   but I have the rest of the semester to pull up my grade.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    There were many, many more like this, but I think you get the idea.   Now, how would they cope? Directly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “I’d start thinking about studying harder (or studying in a different   way) for my next test in that class, I’d pay the ticket, and I’d work   things out with my best friend the next time we speak.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “I’d look at what was wrong on my exam, resolve to do better, pay my   parking ticket, and call my friend to tell her I was upset the day   before.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “Work hard on my next paper, speak to the teacher, be more careful   where I park or contest the ticket, and find out what’s wrong with my   friend.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    You don’t have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who   wouldn’t be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or   loved one—these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with   relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling   themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt   distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges,   and keep working at them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    SO, WHAT’S NEW?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Is this such a novel idea? We have lots of sayings that stress the   importance of risk and the power of persistence, such as “Nothing   ventured, nothing gained” and “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try   again” or “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” (By the way, I was delighted to   learn that the Italians have the same expression.) What is truly   amazing is that people with the fixed mindset would not agree. For   them, it’s “Nothing ventured, nothing lost.” “If at first you don’t   succeed, you probably don’t have the ability.” “If Rome wasn’t built in   a day, maybe it wasn’t meant to be.” In other words, risk and effort   are two things that might reveal your inadequacies and show that you   were not up to the task. In fact, it’s startling to see the degree to   which people with the fixed mindset do not believe in effort.Updated edition; How we can learn to fulfill our potential; parenting; business;school, relationships; 1.7 million copies in print","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301878386917,"sku":"NP9781400062751","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400062751.jpg?v=1767732729","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mindset-isbn-9781400062751","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}