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Thriving on the Sure Thing

“growth mind-set”—

In recent years, psychologists studying differences in educational achievement have been paying more attention to the question of ‘non-cognitive traits’, by which they mean something like personality, or character. It’s now recognised that the attitude students take towards the learning process, and the habits they practise, have a bigger impact on

Falko Rheinberg, a researcher in Germany, studied schoolteachers with different mindsets. Some of the teachers had the fixed mindset. They believed that students entering their class with different achievement levels were deeply and permanently different:

tutor effect.

That’s why the hardest part of the journey to personalized success isn’t adopting the new mindset . . . . . . it’s letting go of the old one.

One of the most tremendous predictors of long-term success is having a growth mindset. Carol Dweck, a world-renowned Stanford University psychologist and the author of Mindset: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential,