Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

The growth mindset can be applied to many areas of life. In the growth mindset, intelligence, creativity, and artistic ability can be developed over time with practice, hard work, endurance, and a willingness to learn and adapt. In the fixed mindset, someone has a set amount of intelligence, creativity, or artistic ability that does not change regardless of opportunities for learning and growth. Finally, people with fixed or growth mindset react differently to particular situations, but they can learn how to react better and how to approach the situation in more productive ways in the future.

The type of people a person hires often reflects their mindset, such as an employee who is only going to validate the boss versus an employee who is going to offer suggestions to better the company.

Creating an environment that encourages hard work, effort, and growth is crucial for children to learn how to continually develop their intellect and talents

A growth mindset challenges people to look at the process, not just the results, to see the effort it took to get from one place to the next to develop traits and abilities.

Adopting a growth mindset may mean having to face mistakes and failures head on, which could be painful at first, but finding the opportunity to learn and grow out of each negative situation ends up benefiting that person far more in the long run.

people with a growth mindset see mistakes and failures as opportunities to learn and improve themselves.

Effort and hard work are integral to this mindset and the success that stems from it.

People with a growth mindset see mistakes and failures as opportunities to learn and improve themselves.

So do everything you can to surround yourself with people who make you better and inspire possibility—the ones who refuse to let you fail

For some, they may not even be conscious in their decisions to work harder and achieve the peak of their abilities, as the mindset simply comes naturally. But, for others, shifting from the fixed to the growth mindset, they have to learn to push away their fears and inadequacies to embrace the evolution of their abilities that is possible if they commit to the growth mindset.