No Limits: The Art and Science of High Performance

by Mukesh Bansal

This is in contrast to the other type of mindset that Dweck calls the ‘growth mindset’. People with this worldview see their current capabilities as transitory and believe that they will continue to evolve over a period of time. For these people, failure or success is not a lasting event but a new data point, from which they learn what they can do and where they need to improve. They see themselves as a work in progress and don’t shy away from trying out new things, which they see as opportunities to learn and grow. Each failure shows something new to work on. People with a growth mindset put themselves out there, take on difficult assignments with elements of risk and challenge, keenly observe what works and what doesn’t, and keep getting better at it.