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Psychology - Mindset

Gavin Carvalho

Overview

 What is a mindset? What does it influence?  Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset  What kind of mindset do you have? Quiz with scoring system  Scores and feedback from quiz  What are the key Characteristics of the growth mindset?  Concrete Planning  Challenges and Failures  Did you know?  Self-belief and Action  Optimism and Perspective  Can Mindset’s Change?  How to Change Mindset’s?  Resources on Mindset Change  Tips For Parents – Growth Mindset Praise  Consequences of belief (chart – fixed vs growth)  Does growth mindset correlate with achievement  References

What is a Mindset? What does it influence?

• The Mindset is defined simply as the established set of

attitudes held by someone.

• It is the foundation of everything that we do. It affects
• ur decisions, thought process and the actions that you

take in everyday situations. Importantly, it also governs how you deal with unexpected situations that you may face daily.

The Two Mindsets: Growth and Fixed

 Based on the belief that your qualities (intelligence, athletic ability etc.) can be developed with effort, strategy, and help from

• thers. Everyone can change and

grow through application and experience.  The belief that each person is born with innate qualities (intelligence, personality, character) that cannot be changed regardless of effort, environment or education.  Effort is viewed as a sign of not being

• smart. It must come naturally.

 “You either have it or you don’t”

Growth Min indset Fix ixed Min indset

What kind of mindset do you have? - Read the statements and decide if you mostly agree or disagree with it.

• 3. No matter how

much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.

• 2. You can learn new

things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are.

• 4. You can always

substantially change how intelligent you are.

• 1. Your intelligence is

something very basic about you that you can’t change very much

Carol Dweck, Mindset

Statements 1 and 2 are fixed mindset questions, whereas 3 and 4 are growth mindset questions. Which statements did you agree with most? It is possible to have elements of both mindsets, but most people lean towards one mindset.

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Carol Dweck, Mindset

What are the key characteristics of the growth mindset?

Be e a good pla lanner – plan effective and efficient ways to get your tasks done. Accept and em embrace challenges – View each challenge as an opportunity to improve and learn something new. Sel elf-belief – They believe that they can always improve themselves. This does not mean they believe they can do anything or be the best at anything they want but instead the belief that they can improve at anything they want. Embrace fa fail ilures – We all fail. Growth minded people look at failures as

• pportunities to learn and grow. Be resilient.

Be e opti timistic – View each situation in a positive way, this has a very positive effect

• n health and well being.

Be e activ tive – Take action to achieve goals at the appropriate time

Concrete planning

 Create concrete plans to achieve

• r perform tasks or goals that you

can visualize.  Research has proven that just writing down the where and when

• f completing a task increases the

probability of completing the task by 80%.  For example, if the players wrote down when and where they intend to practice the skills they wanted to improve from their player profile, they would be far more likely to complete those practice sessions and achieve their goals for improvement.

Challenges and Failures

Challenges and failures are viewed very simply as an opportunity to

• improve. Growth minded people

understand that if at first they do not succeed, it is an opportunity for them to work harder and smarter. They will be resilient and always look for new solutions. Growth minded people value the journey of improvement more than the joy at the finish. Once a goal has been completed, the mentality is to move on to the next challenge and continue to improve. They are likely playing the infinite game.

Self-Belief and Action

People with good self-belief are also more liable to respond more positively to failure. They will likely work harder on the task during the next attempt. According to Dweck, they are more likely to follow through on the task as they enjoy the journey or process more. Do growth minded people believe that they can be the best at anything they want to do? No, that is not the

• case. Growth minded people have the self-belief to know

that they can improve any characteristic of theirs with time, effort, strategy and the right mindset.

Did you know?

Darwin and Tolstoy were considered ordinary children? That Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers of all time, was completely uncoordinated and graceless as a child? That the photographer Cindy Sherman, who has been on virtually every list of the most important artists of the twentieth century, failed her first photography class? That Geraldine Page, one of our greatest actresses, was advised to give up for a lack of talent? Did you know that Michael Jordan did not make his High School Varsity team during his sophomore year? – Carol Dweck

Optimism and Perspective

 Growth minded people will often look at situations in a positive way and find an optimistic interpretation for why it may have happened.  For Example, an employee who has not had the best performance of late shows up late to work and is poorly

• dressed. The fixed mindset leader will look at the employee and

reflect his attire and performance as poor due to poor work ethic, desire or commitment. The employee may even get fired. The growth mindset leader will aim to find out what happened to the employee. Is everything ok at home? How is the family? How is he/she’s health? Once they get to know the employee, they can then proceed to figure out a strategy to help that employee perform better.

Can mindset’s change?

• Yes, mindsets can change with time, effort and strategy.
• The majority of the difference in the two mindsets comes from the awareness,

perception and reaction to the same event.

• For example, a 7th grader has just started middle school after attaining very good

grades in elementary school. However, with the added difficulty in 7th grade testing, his first mid term grades were D’s and F’s. For the fixed mindset student, this failure would mean that he was not smart enough, that academics might not be their strongest asset and could respond with less effort for the next test as effort is a sign of them not being smart. For the growth mindset student, they see the failure as added motivation to succeed. They understand that they need to put more effort and find a more efficient strategy to complete their homework and study for tests. They will also be more receptible to feedback on how to improve.

How can mindsets change?

 A key ingredient in switching mindsets is being self-aware and having the will to change.  It is important that we set clear, achievable goals and a concrete plan to carry it out.  When faced with failure, a key term to be used is “not yet”, which translates to “I have not learned that yet” or “I do not have a solution yet”

 Dr. Alia Crum – Change your mindset, Change the game - https://youtu.be/0tqq66zwa7g  Dr. Carol Dweck’s presentation on growth mindset at google - https://youtu.be/-71zdXCMU6A Web Learning: There are FREE classes available through the PERTS research at Stanford University at the website below that provide great information for parents in helping them learn their role in the process of helping their children adopt a growth mindset. https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents/learn-about-growth- mindset/what-is-growth-mindset-parents

Resources

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Tips for Parents – Growth Mindset Praise

Do’s Don’t’s  Do not focus on qualities that could be stable like talent or intelligence.

 Focus on strategy – “I really liked how you found a new way to solve that problem”  Effort – “You have been working really hard, you have been improving”  Mistakes – “I love mistakes as they are opportunities to learn and improve, what did you learn from your experience today?”

References

 Blessof, D. (2017. January 19). Adopting a growth mindset for the new year. Retrieved March 30, 2020 from https://www.relativity.com/blog/adopting-a-growth-mindset-for- the-new-year/  Loehr, J. E., & Schwartz, T. (n.d.). The power of full engagement  Dweck, C. (2017) Mindset Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential. London: Robinson.