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

Constructive means helping the child to fix something, build a better product, or do a better job.

When children hear their parents level fixed judgments at others, it communicates a fixed mindset. And they have to wonder, Am I next?

This leads us back to the idea of “potential” and to the question of whether tests or experts can tell us what our potential is, what we’re capable of, what our future will be. The fixed mindset says yes. You can simply measure the fixed ability right now and project it into the future.

special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame.

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But as in the example of Elizabeth above, children need honest and constructive feedback. If children are “protected” from it, they won’t learn well.

Your “intelligence mindset” comes into play when situations involve mental ability. Your “personality mindset” comes into play in situations that involve your personal qualities—for

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