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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Paperback – December 26, 2007

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Now updated with new research—the book that has changed millions of lives

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with agrowth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

Praise for Mindset

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success

“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Everyone should read this book.”—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick

“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”—Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0

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Mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone," says the Oxford American Dictionary. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford. Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate is one of growth and opportunity. Which mindset do you possess? Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The good news, says Dweck, is that mindsets are not set: at any time, you can learn to use a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. This is a serious, practical book. Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome. (On sale Feb. 28)
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“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success

“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Everyone should read this book.”—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick

“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”—Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Rep Upd edition (December 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345472322
ISBN-13: 978-0345472328
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 2,197 customer reviews
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Concept is brilliant, excecution not so much

Bysilvershipson December 23, 2016

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I was looking forward to reading this for months, and had a mixed reaction when I finally did. The book is valuable for its conceit: that there are two types of mind-sets; the growth and the fixed. The growth is the one to have if you want to thrive in life, career, relationships, etc. People are formed early on into one mindset or the other, but can change to the valuable growth mindset if they put themselves to the task. This is incredibly important and the book's value stands on this assertion alone. All of this can be summed up in a single chapter, or a scientific paper tweaked for the lay reader. The problem is that this argument is stretched thin to become a "book" and Dweck's writing doesn't maintain enough interest on its own and is often clunky, sentimental and obvious at times. I'm sure this happens a lot when a notable scientist, psychologist, etc is given a book deal and needs to expand it to justify a full-length book when something shorter would suffice to most readers (exceptions are brilliant writers like Daniel Kahneman and Daniel Gilbert, etc). So Midset is a mixed bag. The real gift here is the conceit. Read it because it has value. It's an informational book, but not a great book.

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Interesting theory, yet lacking depth

ByPeng Jinon December 25, 2014

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I first came across the author in a TED video. Her talk about how "not yet" generates far more power than "fail" was interesting and I decided to buy her book to further read into her studies. The book in general is an interesting piece of work. I like the way she describes the "growth mindset". However, most of the book seems to focus on discussing the difference between "fixed mindset" and "growth mindset" applied to different fields. So it does get very predictable and tedious. There is far not enough discussion about how to better develop the "growth mindset". It is like the author uses the entire book to emphasize how important "growth mindset" is but doesn't really offer much help. In particular, I don't like how she attributes every corporate failure to "fixed mindset". I think it is way too generalizing and over-simplifying.

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Great In-depth Book on Mindsets!

ByFiras Kon September 14, 2017

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Even though the book could have been a lot shorter without losing any value whatsoever, I still feel the examples, stories and case studies help the reader to grasp the concepts fully and be able to compare and contrast those examples with his/her own story and personal situation.

In a nutshell, mindsets can be one of two main types: fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. People with the fixed mindset believe their personalities, social skills, capabilities, intelligence among other traits are born with them and thus cannot be changed or improved. As a result, they usually tend to give up quickly and almost instantly in the face of life's obstacles and difficulties. People with the growth mindset, however, believe in growth and learning. They believe that any and all areas of their lives can be improved upon with hard work and learning. As a result, they tend to persevere in the face of all different kinds of challenges and problems.

And Carol talks about all that in five important areas of life: relationships, parenting, teaching, business and sports. I highly recommend this book!

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This book is 'outside the box' thinking. EXCELLENT!

ByD3ruthieon September 10, 2017

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Another favorite of mine that parents, teachers and school administration should read (and maybe themselves be state tested on LOL) I really think (after reading this book and a few others) that the conceptual content would really help drive student achievement and a growth mindset in our students IF we stop trying to educate our students in the same old manner. M-F with tons of HW isn't utilizing the technology of today, nor is it encouraging our kids to think and work 'outside the box'. A different approach in educational methods is called for asap.

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Experts are made not born

ByAmazon Customeron March 5, 2014

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This book deals with the idea that there are two points of view when someone is trying to accomplish some endeavor, one is that you could be born with the talent to achieve what you want and if not, is not your destiny to be able to accomplish this task (fixed mindset), and the other one is the fact that if you face obstacle in anything like a job, a relationship, etc. you have simply to work hard to achieve your goal. This books shows how many famous guys that we think are innate talented indeed needed to work a lot practicing failing one, two and many times until they achieved success, this is the flexible mind set and if you have this attitude toward any obstacle you can really be successful, on the contrary if you don't like to be exposed to failure o being taken out of your comfort zone you have the fixed mindset and probably never will rise to your full potential, the flexible mindset enjoys challenges instead of avoid them, enjoys research and hard work, you must learn that these are the way you reach mastery on any task you engage, the author makes a good job explaining and giving many examples on how yourself, and education should be oriented to teach how people thinking this way (flexible mindset). Although I don't consider this book extremely exceptional, the general idea is very powerful, probably some practical drills on how to practice this mindset would be helpful, overall a good reading

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incredible insights

ByPeter M Beaumonton December 2, 2014

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Recommended via Michael Hyatt, this book is full of great insights about us and why we and others do the things we do.
It demonstrated to me that I have a mix of fixed and growth mindsets and in particular offered advice on how to motivate my children. A great read, written in a simple and easy to understand style, it has good examples and is structured in a logical process.
Recommended reading.

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