Developing the Growth Mindset-Jacob Onwukwe

Outline

What is Mindset

Kinds of Mindsets

Characteristics of Mindsets How to develop

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Why we need to embrace Growth

Mindset

When do you feel smart?

The big question

When I do not make any mistakes. In other words,you’re supposed to be perfect.

When I work on something for a long time and I startto figure it out. In other words, when you are learning.

What is Mindset?

Mindsets are beliefs—beliefs aboutyourself and your most basic qualities.Think about your intelligence, yourtalents, your personality.

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Kinds of Mindsets

A fixed mindset reflects a belief in natural talent: thatqualities such as intelligence, creativity, and talent arepredetermined and finite. These qualities are so set thatwhatever you lack, you will continue to lack.

Belief that intelligence is fixed. “intelligence isportrayed as an entity that dwells within us and that wecan’t change”

Fixed Mindset

65% Ability 35% Effort

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Kinds of Mindsets

A growth mindset is a belief that basic abilities can continueto be developed through hard work and dedication.

These innate qualities are just starting points with successbeing the fruit of effort, learning, and persistence. Belief thatintelligence is malleable. “intelligence is portrayed assomething that can be increased through one’s efforts”

In growth mindset, people are made, not born.

35% Ability65% Effort

Growth Mindset

…avoid challenges

…give up early

…see effort as a fruitless or worse

…ignore useful negative feedback

…Feel threatened by the success of others

As a result, they may plateau early andachieve less than their full potential

All this confirms a deterministic view of the world

…find lessons and inspiration in the success of others

…learn from criticism

…see effort as the path of mastery

…persist in the face of setbacks

…embrace challenges

As a result, they reach ever higher levels of achievementAll this gives them a greater sense of free will

Growth MindsetIntelligence can be developed

Fixed Mindset

Intelligence is static

Diagram by Nigel Holmes

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What is your mindset?

Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you cannot change very much

You can learn new things, but you cannot really change how intelligent you are

No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quit a bit

You can always substantially change how intelligent you are

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FM

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What to Praise

01 Effort/Learning

02 Applying strategies

03 Selecting difficult tasks

04 Persistence in the face of setbacks

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Warren Buffettspends five to sixhours per dayreading fivenewspapers and500 pages ofcorporate reports

Bill Gates reads 50books per year. In a2016 New York Timesinterview, he said,"Reading is still themain way that I bothlearn new things andtest myunderstanding."

Mark Zuckerberg readsat least one book everytwo weeks. His 2015emphasis was learningabout different cultures,beliefs, histories, andtechnologies.

Elon Musk grew upreading two books aday, according tohis brother, andtaught himselfengineering androcket design.

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Why you need to embrace Growth Mindset

Enjoy life, even when you are not good at it

Improve your self-insight and

self-esteem

Improve your relationships

Be better at taking

responsibility for your life

Strengthen your

confidence

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How to develop Growth Mindset

Acknowledge and embrace imperfections

View challenges as opportunities

Follow the research on brain plasticity

Replace “failing” with “learning”

Cultivate a sense of purpose

“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantitywhich cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism…withpractice, training and above all method we manage to increase our attention, our memory, ourjudgement and literally to become more intelligent that we were before.”

-Alfred Binet, the Inventor of the IQ Test

“I don’t divide the world into weak and strong or successes and failures. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.”

-Benjamin Barber

Culled from the book “The Mindset” by Carol Dweck