Suddenly

we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not

one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable
ability that can be developed through learning.

Fixed trait- success means proving you are smart or talented

- validating you self.
- Didnt want to expose their deficiencies
- If you have it, you have it. If you dont, you dont.

Growth mindset - world of changing qualities

- Stretching yourself to learn something new
- Developing yourself
- Seize the chance

Effort is what makes you smart or talented.

Mindsets are just beliefs. Theyre

powerful beliefs, but theyre just something in your mind,
and you can change your mind. As you read, think about
where youd like to go and which mindset will take you
there.

Potential- someones capacity to develop their skills with effort over time.

012816

George Danzig was a graduate student in math at Berkeley.

One day, as usual, he rushed in late to his math class
and quickly copied the two homework problems from the
blackboard. When he later went to do them, he found
them very difficult, and it took him several days of hard
work to crack them open and solve them. They turned out
not to be homework problems at all. They were two famous
math problems that had never been solved.

Mindset and School Achievement Topic 1

Our students with the fixed mindset who were facing the
hard transition saw it as a threat. It threatened to unmask
their flaws and turn them from winners into losers.

The fixed mindset limits achievement. It fills peoples

minds with interfering thoughts, it makes effort disagreeable,
and it leads to inferior learning strategies.

When youre given a positive

label, youre afraid of losing it, and when youre hit
with a negative label, youre afraid of deserving it.

Little prince p 19
Mindset - 136