Mindset : How You Can Fulfil Your Potential
United States : Ballantine Books Trade : 2006Description: 277 Pages : 21cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 28223ISBN: 9780345472328Subject(s): Creativity | Brain | Problem solving | Cognition and reasoning | PsychologyDDC classification: 153 DEBItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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From 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.
"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, GatesNotes
"It's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest."
After 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 fixed mindset --those who believe that abilities are fixed--are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset --those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.
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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. ix)
- 1 The Mindsets (p. 3)
- Why Do People Differ? (p. 4)
- What Does All This Mean for You? The Two Mindsets (p. 6)
- A View from the Two Mindsets (p. 7)
- So, What's New? (p. 9)
- Self-Insight: Who Has Accurate Views of Their Assets and Limitations? (p. 11)
- What's in Store (p. 11)
- 2 Inside the Mindsets (p. 15)
- Is Success About Learning-Or Proving You're Smart? (p. 16)
- Mindsets Change the Meaning of Failure (p. 32)
- Mindsets Change the Meaning of Effort (p. 39)
- Questions and Answers (p. 45)
- 3 The Truth About Ability and Accomplishment (p. 55)
- Mindset and School Achievement (p. 57)
- Is Artistic Ability a Gift? (p. 67)
- The Danger of Praise and Positive Labels (p. 71)
- Negative Labels and How They Work (p. 74)
- 4 Sports: The Mindset of a Champion (p. 82)
- The Idea of the Natural (p. 83)
- "Character" (p. 91)
- What Is Success? (p. 98)
- What Is Failure? (p. 99)
- Taking Charge of Success (p. 101)
- What Does It Mean to Be a Star? (p. 103)
- Hearing the Mindsets (p. 105)
- 5 Business: Mindset and Leadership (p. 108)
- Enron and the Talent Mindset (p. 108)
- Organizations That Grow (p. 109)
- A Study of Mindset and Management Decisions (p. 111)
- Leadership and the Fixed Mindset (p. 112)
- Fixed-Mindset Leaders in Action (p. 114)
- Growth-Mindset Leaders in Action (p. 124)
- A Study of Group Processes (p. 133)
- Groupthink Versus We Think (p. 134)
- The Praised Generation Hits the Workforce (p. 136)
- Are Negotiators Born or Made? (p. 137)
- Corporate Training: Are Managers Born or Made? (p. 139)
- Are Leaders Born or Made? (p. 141)
- 6 Relationships: Mindsets in Love (Or Not) (p. 144)
- Relationships Are Different (p. 147)
- Mindsets Falling in Love (p. 148)
- The Partner as Enemy (p. 157)
- Competition: Who's the Greatest? (p. 158)
- Developing in Relationships (p. 159)
- Friendship (p. 160)
- Shyness (p. 163)
- Bullies and Victims: Revenge Revisited (p. 163)
- 7 Parents, Teachers, and Coaches: Where Do Mindsets Come From? (p. 173)
- Parents (and Teachers): Messages About Success and Failure (p. 174)
- Teachers (and Parents): What Makes a Great Teacher (or Parent)? (p. 193)
- Coaches: Winning Through Mindset (p. 202)
- Our Legacy (p. 211)
- 8 Changing Mindsets (p. 213)
- The Nature of Change (p. 213)
- The Mindset Lectures (p. 216)
- A Mindset Workshop (p. 218)
- Brainology (p. 221)
- More About Change (p. 224)
- Taking the First Step (p. 226)
- People Who Don't Want to Change (p. 230)
- Changing Your Child's Mindset (p. 234)
- Mindset and Willpower (p. 239)
- Maintaining Change (p. 242)
- The Road Ahead (p. 246)
- Notes (p. 247)
- Recommended Books (p. 267)
- Index (p. 269)
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Library Journal Review
Do you have two left feet or a brown thumb? Not good at math, athletics, or art? Many of us believe one or more of these statements are true reflections of our innate abilities. Psychologist and researcher Dweck (Stanford Univ.), however, argues that attributes such as intelligence, personality, creativity, and talent are all a matter of our mind-sets, or our beliefs about ourselves. She posits that there are two basic mind-sets: fixed and growth. People with the fixed mind-set believe that everything about themselves is innate-e.g., that they are either smart or they're not, talented or not. Those with the growth mind-set, on the other hand, embrace challenges, struggles, criticism, and setbacks as opportunities for learning and growth rather than indications of failure. The good news is that mind-set, according to Dweck, can be changed from fixed to growth. This book is an essential read for parents, teachers, coaches, and others who are instrumental in determining a child's mind-set, and in turn, his or her future success, as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment. Highly recommended for all libraries.-Wendy Wendt, Marshall-Lyon Cty. Lib., MN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
Mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone," says the Oxford American Dictionary. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford. Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate is one of growth and opportunity. Which mindset do you possess? Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The good news, says Dweck, is that mindsets are not set: at any time, you can learn to use a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. This is a serious, practical book. Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome. (On sale Feb. 28) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reservedCHOICE Review
In sharing her years of research on how people's beliefs influence their lives, Dweck (Columbia Univ.) hopes to help people have better lives. She focuses on what she calls "mindsets," the fixed mind-set (i.e., one's abilities are set) versus the growth mind-set (one's abilities are changeable through learning). An individual's mind-set, the author argues, coordinates with his or her beliefs about risk and effort and about the causes of success and failure. Dweck sees the fixed mind-set as typical of people who seek to validate, rather than develop, themselves; the opposite is true of the growth mind-set. In the last chapter, Dweck provides strategies to help the reader change to (and maintain) a growth mind-set. This book is at its core more self-help than scholarly. Drawing examples from education, sports, business, and relationships--and then making connections to the research--Dweck makes psychology accessible to the uninitiated. Those looking for extensive details of the research will not find them here. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; general readers. C. J. Speaker Wells CollegeThere are no comments on this title.