Recommended in Stanford Magazine and by Guy Kawasaki.

A very useful book about the growth mindset. Essentially, the book makes a case that those people who look at everything they do in life as a learning opportunity are much more successful.

I think where this comes into play most often is when we face a setback, or a failure. Whether thats getting rejected from something (a job, a team, etc), messing up at work, having your boss yell at you, losing at something, getting laid off, making a bad b More...

Excellent book. This one sounds like a typical self-help book, but it's a real find. The author is a pyschology researcher at Columbia, and her book is filled with insights and illustrations regarding the differences that a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset can have when applied to business, parenting, school, and relationships. Her research has been highlighted in many venues, including an excellent book on parenting titled Nurture Shock.

I give it 5 stars because I can see so much of myself i More...

Walt Disney once said the best way to get something done is to stop talking about it and do it. Such a simple sentiment ought to be a no-brainer; and yet, how often have we let opportunities slip through our grasp because of the way we think, what we believe, or what we uphold as valuable?

In MINDSET, Carol Dweck shares her research on that particular part of the brain and how it affects the way we live our lives and approach our goals. Using powerful examples, Dweck shows how too much praise of More...

This is probably all i really need to hear out of this book, but i will read the whole thing anyway. there are two mindsets. fixed and growth.

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone -- the fixed mindset -- creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a certain moral character -- well, then you'd better prove you have a healthy dose of them. It simply wouldn't do to look or feel deficient in these most More...

My dad had been talking about this book, so when we went to visit him and I saw it on his desk I started reading it. It made sense right away and was easy to get into. Your mindset (either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset) determines how you relate to your abilities and experiences in school, business, relationships, and sports (those are the areas she covers). I could see myself in both of the mindsets she described, and I think they're a useful tool for making sense of places where I strugg More...

Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success is based on a deceptively simple—yet powerful—premise. The central distinction she draws here is directly relevant to any of us interested in teaching leadership. According to Dr. Dweck (a Stanford psychology professor), each of us adopts one of two mindsets about life: the fixed or growth mindset. People with fixed mindsets tend to see human potential as static and finite; people with growth mindsets see human potential as more dynamic and el More...

The flap copy on this book promised it would be "a great book that will change your life." That certainly raised my expectations, and I'm happy to report that I wasn't disappointed.

The premise of the book is the basis of cognitive psychology: what you believe affects your whole life, so if you can change your beliefs, ie, your mindset, you can change your life. This book characterizes two mindsets, the fixed and the growth-oriented. The fixed is the more common one because that's what society te More...

Dweck is a Stanford University psychologist who has written one of those awesome concepts that everyone should read. The premise: success is determined primarily by mindset. A fixed mindset limits us and establishes early boundaries that can lead to negative behaviors. A growth mindset lets us continually strive to greater levels of performance. The fixed mindset can become a perfectionist, or they might assume they'll always succeed without effort (and make excuses about the external cause when More...

Carol Dweck condenses years of research and experience into one book. Her ideas are clear and supported by anecdotes and research. Dweck suggests that our mindset determines our quality of life, but no surprise there. However, she suggests 2 different mindsets for approaching life: fixed and growth. Those with a fixed mindset believe that intelligence is static. They desire to appear competent and smart, avoid challenges, and view their circumstances as affirming or demeaning their intelligence. More...

This book changed my perspective on abilities and potential. Dweck shows how to move from the fixed mindset (the belief that human qualities and abilities are set and essentially unalterable) to the growth mindset (the belief that those qualities and abilities can be cultivated through effort). Dweck, a psychologist, based the book on solid scientific research, not the pseudoscientific mystical nonsense often found in "success psychology" books. Dweck applies the mindsets to sports, business lea More...

This book, by Stanford professor, Dr. Carol S. Dweck, presents the compelling idea that the mindset we approach our goals with can dramatically impact our success. She defines mindsets as either fixed or growth oriented. She outlines that a fixed mindset often impedes our personal success while a growth mindset allows us to live more authentically and more potently.

Dr. Dweck explains her term fixed mindset as a mindset that defines intelligence in static terms (i.e. I am smart/dumb. I am a succ More...

This book was recommended to me by my Behavorial Economics professor at Alverno College. It was so contradictory to all of the New Age "affirm that you can and it will manifest in your life" crap that I had been exposed to for years and years that I absolutely loved it!

Why?

Not that I have any problems with affirmations, but it asserts that the single most important thing that most of the New Age gurus don't tell you is this: success takes work. Consistent, regular, dedicated WORK. Sure, affirmat More...

When I encountered Dweck's research for the first time, in another book a couple of years ago, I had a "scales falling from the eyes" moment. It helped me change my internal life. Today, finishing this book, I reflect happily and with chagrin at how much more work I have to do to shift my mindset so I can grow to be the kind of person I want to be in the world.

Mindset investigates the difference between believing we are only as ______ as we are versus believing we are as _______ as we work to be More...

Okay, so the idea is fine, and usable, and easy to explain to others, and pretty simple. I was about to give this book a one-star rating because I was so irritated with Dr. Dweck trying to shoehorn her idea into every single success story in the history of humanity and try to say that her theory was the cause of that success. Conversely, every failure could have been averted but for a change in mindset. It was the Fixed mindset that caused the Chicago Cubs to never win a World Series. If only th More...

This could be the most important book I ever read.
As you read the book you will see yourself described in the pages. Carol Dweck makes you think about how you face failure in a completely different way. I see a considerable amount of fixed mindset about me. However even before I had finished the book I found myself trying challenges and tasks I knew would be difficult if at all possible for me but I would approach these challenges positively. Like most of us I would never set out to fail, but m More...

I really enjoyed this book and consumed it in a couple of days. The focus of this work is on describing and teaching the difference between two mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. Fixed mindset thinkers believe in innate ability and natural talent which you either have or don't. Growth mindset thinkers believe that all talent can be acquired through hard work and effort. The book offers tons of examples in business, sports, relationships, and classrooms to drive the point home. I More...

This book was pretty good. It discusses the difference between two basic mindsets: The first is the fixed mindset--that your intelligence and ability to learn is fixed and static. The second is the growth mindset--that intelligence can be developed.

People with the fixed mindset avoid challenges and give up easily. They see effort as fruitless, or even detrimental. They ignore useful negative feedback. They feel threatened and resentful of the success of others. As a result, they plateau early a More...

Dr. Dweck's book identifies two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. With specific examples from the worlds of education, relationship, business, and sports she makes one solid point - the belief that you either are or aren't talented can hold you back, while the belief that you can always do something about how you perform allows you to continue to raise the bar for yourself.

Her research about the value of a growth mindset is irrefutable, however her conclusions about the source of a More...

Wow! This book will change the way you think about learning... and parenting and teaching and just being. Dweck identifies two mindsets: fixed and growth. Imagine a toddler just beginning to walk, just beginning to talk. The perfect example of a person with a growth mindset, the toddler has nowhere to go but up. There is no fear of failure, only the hope and determination that accomplishments will be made. But Dweck has conducted research on groups of children, praising one group for being smart More...

*A change of mind*

If there ever was an instruction book on how to do life better, this would be it. And, doing life better requires a change of mindset from a fixed to a growth-oriented one. When we live life with a fixed mindset, abilities and talents seem set in stone, and success and failures define who we are--or are not. On the other hand, when we adopt a growth mindset, we are constantly revising ourselves and successes and failures simply guide the way. As Carol herself summarizes:
"When p More...

You can learn new things, but you can’t really change your basic intelligence.
To be honest, you can’t really change how much talent you have.
You can do things differently, but the important parts about who you are can’t really be changed.

Do you agree with those statements?

After more than 20 years of research in motivation and personality psychology, Carol S. Dweck introduces her findings in Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Mindsets are basic beliefs about you and your intelligence, person More...

In my salad days I took a course on Shakespeare. I did so for the usual reasons that I took courses in those days: I wanted to look smart. I wanted to be someone that people admired.

But I didn't even read the plays! See, they were complicated and filled with archaic expressions and vocabulary, and the stories seemed tiresome. I was bored in class and I quickly gave up on the homework, but I damn it if I didn't look smart by taking a Shakespeare class.

Until the very end, I had no idea what the More...

I keep hearing educators praising this author and, specifically, this book. Maybe she's better in person. I found this book trite. It was very repetitive and full of cherry picked stories pulled out just to prove her obvious conclusion. Are there really people who think that if you go into something with a negative attitude it won't affect the outcome? She goes to the extreme with the positive attitude stuff, though. I just don't buy that anyone can do anything if they just try hard enough. Not More...

The premise of this book sounds pretty "duh." I ran across its title in several different contexts before I decided that if such dissimilar people swear by it, it can't be as obvious as it sounds. And its implications are wide-ranging and interesting. It made me see the world in a new way. It's entertaining and an easy read, and would be especially valuable to teachers, parents, and coaches, but really applies to pretty much everybody. Instead of subtitling it "The New Psychology of Success" (ey More...

The author, a social psychologist, divides people into two types. One has a fixed mindset and so believes that intelligence and personality are fixed traits that cannot change. It follows from this view that effort is to be avoided, because if you need to try you must not have talent; that setbacks reflect personally on you (transference of action to individual); that you blame others or yourself for setbacks; and esteem is garnered through the deprecation of others. The second group is the grow More...

Another book that attempts to build upon the research of Anders Ericsson.

The way I read it, I would break the book into 3 parts:
Part 1: How people fail because they don't have the right mindset
Part 2: How people success because they have the right mindset
Part 3: You could also call this part 2a - it basically deals with children and success in school, home, etc.

The first part of the book was the worst. Its case after case of "this person tried to succeed and failed because he didn't have the rig More...

El título es muy desafortunado para un libro basado en la investigación científica de la Dra. Dweck de la Universidad de Columbia. Haciendo a un lado lo anterior, representa una lectura muy interesante y amena que desbanca muchas de las creencias que tenemos sobre lo que consideramos como genialidad, talento, cualidades naturales, etc. En resumen expone la existencia de 2 configuraciones mentales en las personas, la configuración mental fija y la configuración mental de crecimiento. Es un concep More...

Dweck's book, "Mindset" has an extremely POWERFUL insight in that it reveals that people have one of Two Mindsets;

1) A FIXED MINDSET meaning intelligence is static which leads to a desire to look smart and therefore, avoid challenges, give up easy, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful negative feedback, or feel threatened by the success of others. People with this Mindset are likely to plateau early and achieve less than their potential. This Mindset represents a very Deterministically View o More...

The book's premise is that there are two mindsets: Fixed or Growth oriented. Fixed will keep you where you are. Growth will unlock new possibilities for your relationships, career, hobbies, and life. Without being overtly stated in the book, I think there is a thread related to a person's self-confidence, as well. Carol Dweck shares some powerful examples of people we know (celebrities, athletes) who come from each mindset. It also outlines a few things you can do to SHIFT your mindset. All in a More...

Mindset may very well be the best book I've read this year. Certainly, it's the one that's changed my thinking the most, which is pretty much the point.

In Mindset, Carol Dweck explains that people tend to fall into one of two mindsets. The first, the "fixed mindset," is one in which you feel that intelligence, artistic ability, business acumen, athletic potential, etc. are all fixed. You're smart or your dumb. You're a great artist or you're not. And if you're smart, you need to keep proving tha More...