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