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.
