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Encouraging Growth Mindset
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I’m in this situation?” asked Carol Dweck. Carol Dweck is a professor of psychology at Stanford University who is known for studying fixed and growth mindset. She argues having growth mindset is key to success in “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids”. Growth mindsets people love opportunity to learn and always try to improve even if they fail. Fixed mindset people give up once they fail because they think it is impossible for them to do it. Also “You’re not Special” an graduation speech by David McCullough given to graduates argues to embrace life and live to challenge oneself. "The Secret to Raising Smart Kids" and "You are Not Special" encourage the audience to have growth mindset is a path to having distinctive life. …show more content…

She study several fifth graders and gave them nonverbal IQ test. She gave them easy questions first and praised one group on intelligence. Others on hard work and intelligence. Carol Dweck found that, “intelligence praise encouraged a fixed mind-set more often than did pats on the back for effort. Those congratulated for their intelligence, for example, shied away from a challenging assignment—they wanted an easy one instead ( Dweck).” Dweck is encouraging growth mindset by praising people on their efforts because it urges them to take challenges and improve. Unlike where parents praise kids for being smart but they are likely to give up when they don’t understand something due to putting importance on knowledge not

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