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    Summary and Analysis of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: Based on the Book by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
    Summary and Analysis of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: Based on the Book by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
    Summary and Analysis of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: Based on the Book by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
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    Summary and Analysis of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: Based on the Book by Carol S. Dweck, PhD

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Carol Dweck’s book.
     
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    Why do some people flourish when faced with a challenge, while others crumble? This is the question that has defined Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck’s decades of research, resulting in her ground-breaking theory of mindset. Dweck believes that talent and intelligence do not tell the full story about one’s ability to achieve. Instead, what determines personal success is whether one has a fixed or growth mindset; the first is a belief that our qualities and strengths cannot be altered, and the second way of thinking supports the idea that they can change over time.
     
    Based on meticulous research, and with anecdotes about successful CEOs, athletes, artists, and educators who achieved greatness through attitude as much as ability, Mindset offers new ways of thinking about motivation and personal development.
     
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 25, 2017
    ISBN9781504018869
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      Summary and Analysis of Mindset - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Carol S. Dweck, PhD

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      In the wake of books such as Daniel Goleman’s 1995 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, there was an increased appetite for self-help books that didn’t simply give peppy advice, but were also backed up with scientific research. Psychologist Carol Dweck’s Mindset, which discusses how one’s view of a situation can determine success or failure, has been praised for its accessible style, which allows it to bring psychology to a non-academic audience with real-life subjects and famous figures serving as the means to convey ideas.

      Mindset builds upon the ideas expressed in Dweck’s first book, Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development, in which she identified two contrasting views of intelligence: the entity view and the incremental view. The first sees intelligence as unchangeable; the second sees it as malleable. These views are the basis for the fixed and growth mindsets explored in her second book.

      Mindset, which was published in 2006, also foresees a culture of helicopter parenting and Tiger Moms, warning of the consequences of placing too many expectations on children. The trials of disgraced Enron executives were still going on when Dweck was writing Mindset, and she refers to that scandal as a prime example of just how dangerous the wrong mindset can be. Mindset was also released at a time when the popular imagination was turning against such business megalomania—such as in the film The Corporation (2003), which suggested that if corporations were people, they would be psychopaths.

      In the introduction, Dweck writes that her students at Columbia sat [her] down and ordered [her] to write this book. They wanted people to be able to use [Dweck and her students’] work to make their lives better. The publication of the book completes the project of making her academic work available for everyone.

      Overview

      After decades of research, psychology professor Carol S. Dweck, PhD, concluded the most important factor in determining human success was not talent or intelligence, but attitude—or what she calls mindset. Dweck argues that there are two types of mindsets: a fixed mindset, which dictates that our ability to achieve is unchangeable, and a growth mindset, which says that we can improve our abilities through challenging work and practice. The fixed mindset makes our failures personal; we, as opposed to our actions, are not good enough. The growth mindset believes that persistence, hard work, and an openness to criticism are exactly what help us improve.

      Dweck shows how the growth mindset works when applied to the key areas of our lives: schooling, work, and relationships. She looks at successful CEOs, athletes, and educators and highlights how a willingness to make mistakes and learn from feedback helped these individuals turn failure into success. She also looks at

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