Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Finding #3: People with the growth mindset in sports (as in pre-med chemistry) took charge of the processes that bring success—and that maintain it.

Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating.

Finding #1: Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving.

Chapter 3 THE TRUTH ABOUT ABILITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT

The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues.

The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Before we judge, let’s remember that effort isn’t quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

However, this point is crucial: The growth mindset does allow people to love what they’re doing—and to continue to love it in the face of difficulties.

And then they switch themselves into the growth mindset—making sure they take the challenge, learn from the failure, or continue their effort.