How to Improve Learning & Performance by Developing a Growth Mindset
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How to Improve Learning & Performance by Developing a Growth Mindset
Dr. Carol Dweck of Stanford University has studied attitudes toward learning for decades, as covered in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Dweck determined that most people adhere to one of two mindsets: fixed or growth.
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What would this feedback look or sound like in the workplace? Instead of just giving employees an award for the smartest idea or praise for a brilliant performance, they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and a
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Dweck shows convincingly that the most reliable predictor for long-term success is having a “growth mindset.” To actively seek and welcome feedback, be it positive or negative, is one of the most important factors for success (and happiness) in the long run.
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even if people have a fixed mindset, they’re not always in that mindset. In fact, in many of our studies, we put people into a growth mindset. We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people
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To develop a growth mindset and to nourish it in others, you need to embrace the notion that challenge is the catalyst for learning. When you encounter setbacks—and there will be many—you must persist. You must realize that your effort, and that of others, is your means of gaining mastery. Neither raw talent nor good fortune leads to becoming the b
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