{"id":14299,"date":"2017-06-29T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/?p=14299"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:22:33","slug":"carol-dweck-mindsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/carol-dweck-mindsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Dweck: Mindset and the Psychology of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Dweck, PhD<\/a>, is currently a professor of psychology at Stanford, University and previously held positions at Columbia and Harvard Universities. Along with being a researcher and a professor, Dweck also lectures to education<\/a>, business<\/a>, and sports <\/a>groups around the world on the ‘mindset for achievement.’ Through her research, Dweck coined the terms ‘fixed mindset’ and ‘growth mindset<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

\"Mindset\"<\/p>\n

Dweck’s research has been focused on the power of mindset, and her best-selling book\u00a0Mindset: the New Psychology of Success<\/em> goes deeper into this research.<\/p>\n

Dweck’s conclusion, after years of applied research and case studies<\/a>, is that there are two main mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. According to the website mindsetworks.com<\/a>, co-founded by Dweck and Eduardo Brice\u00f1o<\/a>, Dweck found that one’s mindset correlates to how one approaches challenges. Someone with a growth mindset would approach challenges with more eagerness and would learn from their failures and not be stopped by them. In contrast, someone with a fixed mindset is less likely to approach challenges and would be discouraged by failure. \u00a0They assume they do not have the ability and would not work to improve.<\/p>\n