The Right Mindset

##The Growth Mindset ###Active Development vs

 "Did you win?" Chances are, you have said this to a friend or family member who is returning from a competitive event. In our culture, a person's merit is heavily based on their success, smarts, or skill. Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, believes that this cultural mindset, which she coins a "fixed mindset," is a toxic, eventually stagnant one. In her TED Talk, Dweck proposes a healthy antithesis to the fixed mindset: the "growth mindset." In heavy contrast to the set-in-stone, win-or-fail nature of the fixed mindset, the growth mindset promotes learning, adaptability, and 

Inherently, most believe that people have set traits at birth. Intelligence, cleverness, and aptitudes are

Carol Dweck, Possessors of a growth mindset, however, face challenges or failures not as an slight against their intelligence, but, rather, as an obstacle to overcome -- an opportunity to learn from strife.

growth mindset can be instilled

summarizes the two mindsets and characteristics of each either describes a personal situation in which you experienced each mindset or describes which aspects of each mindset you recognize in yourself explains how you will apply this understanding to your experience at The Iron Yard

fixed mindset vs growth mindset Not Yet grade innate, stagnant intelligence vs ever-evolving, developing intelligence "smart" vs "work" test of intelligence (fixed) vs an opportunity to learn (growth) effort as a threat vs learning opportunity