Growth Mindset

Fixed Mindset

Tyranny of now

Avoid Challenge

Analyse Failure

Freedom of not yet

Avoid failure

Embrace Challenge

Believe intelligence is malleable

Believe their abilities are fixed

you have it or you dont

failure

failure is a lot more personal

"you're not there yet, but you can get there"

"if you can't do it now, you will never be able to do it"

see it as an opportunity to grow

core intelligence is challenged and crushed

find external excuses or reasons for failure

don't focus on trying to improve themselves, focus on circumventing the system (cheating)

Process and analyse errors

try to understand and learn

realize that it is an opportunity to improve themselves

building growth mindset

praise the process of learning

praising intelligence makes them vulnerable

praise effort and progress

changing minsets

help them understand that neurons in brain change on a biological level

when you go out of your comfort zone to learn new things

talent can be taken away

without binary intelligence, what is your worth?

transforms meaning of effort and difficulty

difficulty used to mean they are dumb

difficulty now means they can grow more

can be an equalizer for the unfair advantages of affluence, and racial/gender disparity in performance

keep waging war against the status quo

mistake status quo as permanence

"This is just where I am"
"I can't do X"
"I'm not smart enough for X"

"How do I chart the path to where I want to be"

unalterable traits

can never be improved

Fear of messing up

other people will think that they're the kind of person who messes up.

False Growth mindset

can develop talents and abilities

help from others

good strategies

hard work

Praising effort alone

Telling students "You can do anything"

Blaming the student's mindset

Overcoming perceived threats

effort divorced from learning or performance

should be praising/reinforcing process

just asserting it doesn't make it so

need to also help them to meet those standards

not a hollow promise

scolded for not learning efficiently

claim to have growth mindset to pvercome criticism and threats to their sense of abilities