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15 Benefits of the Growth Mindset

Followup to: Why Your Mindset is So Important Want to have more fun in life? Enjoy learning? Have better relationships? Improve your business? A growth mindset is associated with all of these benefits plus more. This simple attitude impacts your success, health, happiness, careers, and relationships. Your mindset is the view you adopt of yourself—whether your […]

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Changing Mindsets: Can it be done?

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Followup to: Mindsets: Where Do They Come From? In Why Your Mindset is So Important I introduced the concept of fixed (we can’t change) and growth (we can improve through effort) mindsets detailed in Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. ((Dweck (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books.)) The benefits […]

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Mindsets: Where do they come from?

Self-awareness

Followup to: Why Your Mindset is So Important In Why Your Mindset is So Important I introduced the concept of mindsets from Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. ((Dweck (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books.)) Your mindset is the view you have of your qualities and characteristics; specifically, where […]

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Mindset by Carol Dweck – Summary

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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt of yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. – Carol Dweck ((Dweck (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books.)) That is the central message in Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Dweck and her colleagues’ research has […]

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