My Thoughts on Growth Mindset
My Thoughts on Growth Mindset (photo from cheezburger ) I am quite happy to have seen this topic again so soon. I am a psychology major, and both growth mindset and Carol Dweck have been brought up in one of my other classes recently. We discussed this topic in one of my courses that covers pro-social behavior. I love the idea of growth mindset because it is positive in comparison to fixed mindset. With the amount of time I have spent in my major learning about different mindsets and ways of thinking, I can easily recognize a way of thinking that is harmful instead of helpful, or regressive instead of progressive. Having a fixed mindset instead of growth is something I would consider to be harmful in some ways. A fixed mindset is a hindrance on a person's learning and makes it seem like a person cannot do something if they are not inclined to or have a natural talent for. If it is not easy for them to learn something quickly, they would give up on the basis of it being so...