Carol Dweck is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her main research interest is in motivation, personality and development. Her research looks at how our mindsets, and the way we view events in our lives, impacts on our intelligence.
"In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence," (Dweck, C., 2012).
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet?
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