attitudes that might cause smart people to develop the fixed mind-set. Do you, for instance, believe that: • A failure to perform well at the task at hand will reflect your overall self-worth? • Learning a new, unfamiliar task puts you at risk of embarrassment? • Effort is only for the incompetent? • You are too smart to try hard? If you broadly agree with these statements, then you may have more of a fixed mind-set, and you may be at risk of sabotaging your own chances of later success by deliberately avoiding new challenges that would allow you to stretch beyond your comfort zone.
Fixed mind set
