Growth Mindset

                                 Growth Mindset

Hello

I just watch three videos on growth mind-set and then I did the growth mind-set challenges. This was something new to me and I never really thought about how people mind-sets work and I find this to be eye opening and it gave a new perspective how the process of learning and people’s mind-set.

First the videos I watched all the three videos and they had the professor Carol Dweck. In all her three videos her discus’s the way we learn and the two types of mind-sets people have.  As she said in the videos there are two types of mind-sets and they are a fixed-mind-set which is when a person believes that a person’s intelligence is set and it can’t be changed. So people feel stupid and they don’t want to try because they feel like they can’t get better so there intelligence will stay the same and they won’t want to learn as much. Then there is a growth mind-set which believes that there intelligence can grow and improve.  A person with a growth mind-set usually does better. So a growth mind set is the better mind-set to have. As Carol discuses in her video that the way we praise someone can affect a person’s mind-set. As she said the age from one to three the praise their given develops there mind-set. The best way to praise is too praise and award a person’s progress and not if they got the answer right. If you praise a person if getting an answer right they won’t improve and go for a challenge so they won’t increase their intelligence. While if you praise a person progress they will want a challenge and they will want to keep improving and work harder than a person with a mixed mind-set so their intelligence will improve.

Overall I enjoyed this process of watching the videos and finding out how people learn and this can help me in my own learning process.

https://www.aapss.org/fellow/carol-s-dweck/