People with a growth mind-set see talent as something that can be developed and improved, not as an innate, fixed asset that doesn’t change over time. The way I like to think of this is what researchers have termed mastery goals. You are focused on trying to get better and master something, rather than thinking that you’re either good at it or you aren’t. In fact, researcher Heidi Grant Halvorson actually calls them “get-better” goals, a great way to think about them.
