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Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by [Carol Dweck]

Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential 6th Edition, Kindle Edition

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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.

Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

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978-1472139955
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6th
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Robinson
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12 January 2017
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English
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An utterly compelling story of how the way we think shapes our success.Essential reading for anyone with aspirations.

Will prove to be one of the most influential books ever about motivation.

A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. I have found Carol Dweck's work on mindsets invaluable in my own life, and even life-changing in my attitudes toward the challenges that, over the years, become more demanding rather than less. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.

If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Dr. Carol S. Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly bookSelf-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Developmentwas named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship. Her work has been featured in such publications asThe New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, andThe Boston Globe, and she has appeared onTodayand 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M036N60
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Robinson; 6th edition (12 January 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 828 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages

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Wisey

The ebook is fantastic, but the audio version is not good.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 March 2019

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I bought the ebook on kindle and also the audiobook in this title. The content is fantastic and very interesting to read, and the content is very useful to apply to improving your life. However the audio version is almost impossible to listen to for more than 5 minutes. It sounds like the voice you hear when you type a document and you use software to read your document to you...that monotone, computer terrible voice. I highly recommend the written book which i love, but strongly advise against the audiobook, I regret my purchase there.

9 people found this helpful

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A potentially life-changing book if you're ashamed of and pained by failure.

Reviewed in Australia on 16 June 2021

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A few pages in I realised I had a fixed-mindset and what had probably held me back my whole life. A painful attitude that was instilled by well-meaning parents, family and culture.

If failure causes you to feel shame, pain and embarassment that is out of proportion with external events then it's a good sign that you too may have a fixed-mindset.

Briefly, if you believe your abilities are fixed you will repeatedly try to prove that you are good enough and will fear taking risks to avoid looking like a fool. You likely believe that abilities can be gauged through tests and that one's intelligence is set in stone. The growth-mindset on the other hand sees people as capable of change and takes the sting out of failures - real and imagined.

My only criticism is that there are too many anecdotes that go into too much detail. The author could have easily taken out ~20% of this book, which would've made it easier to read.

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Mind bending in a good way.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 June 2018

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This is potentially life changing for those of us who believe we are limited by a preset level of intelligence. It challenges a common assumption that some kids are innately dumb or smart. It shows how to empower yourself by correcting a mistaken mindset. Refreshingly it’s not about unlocking your inner superstar. Instead it’s about thinking in a way that enables you to grow, and to allow others around you to grow too. And it’s liberating for those raised to believe they have high intelligence, but who may be afraid to fail because of it.

Really mind bending in a good way, ‘Mindset’ is as readable as a novel. This is the one book I am recommending to everyone this year, because it’s made me a less anxious person and a better parent, colleague and friend.

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Michael

An easy yet profoundly insightful read

Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2018

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Carol Dweck has a way with words, and you can really feel the work she has done to tame them over her life. (There you go Carol, praise the process right?)

Mindset is a very palatable, very approachable book on high level psychology and the effects it has on our lives; both the detrimental and the uplifting.

The language isn’t esoteric, and Carol definitely isn’t trying to flex years of academic knowledge and language - she is, instead, ultimately concerned with making her point as clearly as possible and to as many people as possible for, without a doubt, no other reason than to improve the lives of her readers.

Inside you’ll find anecdotes about people’s lives; both heartbreaking and liberating in equal serve. These stories stand to demonstrate the power between two very different approaches to processing the world, and our place within it, when faced with challenges, grief, disappointment, failure or loss. The stories act as paintings of two completely different portraits, and yet underlying this is the message that we, ultimately, are the artist of our own lives and while we may not be able to pick the canvas, we are free to choose the paint, the angle, the style and the time required to paint our own portrait; and that it will take time and effort to execute this at varying levels of success.

We all carry a mix of what’s labelled the Fixed-Mindset, and the Growth-Mindset, and as you’ll see it’s not a competition based on where you start relative to others in that ratio, nor a competition with yourself to be perfect.

If you ever hold yourself back, despite your successes, or if you feel hopeless and powerless to take control of yourself and become who you are capable of being, then start reading now.

You’ll not find strict answers to follow as a recipe for success, nor deep academic information, but you’ll find an encouraging way of looking at yourself, and the world; you’ll be kinder to yourself, kinder to others.

If not already, you’ll realise that you, like me, are an unfinished painting and that with time and effort, you can stand tall as a work of art, although never finished, in your own right.

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Kajanan Nithiyananthan

A great concept but unnecessarily lengthy

Reviewed in Australia on 21 October 2020

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The concept of growth vs fixed mindsets is groundbreaking stuff and gives a name to something we all feel at times. I found there to be too many examples in the book, as if the author was just trying to make the book a certain length. I don’t think anyone would’ve found that they didn’t understand the fixed vs growth mindsets after the first 10 examples. In saying this, there was gold scattered throughout the book and I believe this book should be read by every person on this planet.

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Richard Ballina

Verbose meandering pop psychology.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2018

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There’s some good points, better observed and explained by others, such as Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning, which is more original and by someone who walks the walk. Sadly Mindset wastes a lot of time making few points.

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Niall O'Brien

Full of fascinating insights

Reviewed in Australia on 16 April 2018

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I really enjoyed the book because of the practical insights offered throughout. It's very clear how to implement a growth mindset & there's much to learn. Where it falls down is the amount of repetition cloaked in real life, real world examples.

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Very good advice

Reviewed in Australia on 14 October 2019

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Very good advice, but could have been written better. A lot of stories start without any link between them.

Regardless good read.

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Gil George

US Sports Centred Narrative Learning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2019

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Useful effort allows for learning and growth. Making effort useful requires a willingness to look at process and change what isn't working. Failure is a way of understanding that the effort wasn't useful and a tool to speed future progress.

This book has salient information for everyone but the delivery is so laboured, it's easy to miss. You can get the gist by reading the summary at the end of each chapter and speeding through the final chapter (8), skipping around 75%.

Definitely buy this book if:
* you like your information delivered slowly in a narrative form and repeated
* you have a big interest in US sports
* you find social proof persuasive or motivating.

"How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams would be a suitable replacement and is a much better investment of time.

95 people found this helpful

Miss

Helped me find peace with how others treat me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2019

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Not only did it help me transform how I approach thinking about problems in a transformatively more positive way, it's also enabled me to clearly identify how significant others throughout my life (parents, teachers, bosses, colleagues, friends) think (fixed or growth mindset), which has helped me find peace with the way they judge(d) me. This has helped me shift out of feeling responsible for the way I've been judged and I've already shed lots of negative beliefs I held about myself either as a result of the way others spoke to me, or the way in which I spoke to myself with negative self-talk. It's repetitive, which annoys some people, but get this book and read it anyway. You can always take a break from it and dive back in later, you won't be sorry.

42 people found this helpful

Mash

Does not live up to the hype.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2020

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A trusted friend told me this book changed her life, so I was excited about reading it. What powerful advice did the author have for me? Turns out, not much.

The central premise of the book is a statement of the obvious: You can get better at anything you like; it just requires effort, effective strategies and learning from setbacks. People who do this often out-perform people who have greater innate ability but do not apply effort, go through the motions and blame setbacks on others.

That’s it. The rest of the book is endless US-centric sporting anecdotes, written in the glib style of a 300-page LinkedIn post. Some parts really made me cringe: “The growth mindset gave me a mother”; “Parents who send fixed-mindset messages are like France, and parents who send growth-mindset messages are like Italy”; “If we do not learn and work hard, we will take an Icarian flight to nowhere” (the latter supposedly uttered by a four-year-old boy with a STRONG growth mindset).

My recommendation would be to read a one-page summary of this book online, then spend the time you would have spent reading the book studying “Learning to Learn” on Coursera, which provides much more insightful and practical advice about getting better at things in (dare I say it?) a growth-minded way.

17 people found this helpful

D. Smyth

Why, but don't expect how

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2020

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Interesting read but there aren't really many practical methods to change your thinking, its mostly an argument for why you should have a growth mindset, and examples of other people who decided to have one. If you feel like you need help to think that way you're probably going to need to work it out for yourself (something Dweck does actually say in a roundabout way when she says you can't just decide you have one now, you have to work at it). That essentially sums it up I think. None of the last few books like this I've read give you much practical advice on how to get where you're trying to be. I think that's evidenced by the note in the book that there is a false growth mindset out there, well of course, if it's up to you and people tend towards shortcuts (my trying to find help in a book maybe) then it's not surprising people are doing it wrong if you can't compare to a standard. At the end of the day it's not that this book is bad, it was thought provoking, and maybe that's enough, but it will only convince you growth is good, not how to stop having a fixed mindset. For that you'll need to put in the work every day trying to look at the world differently and maybe get a therapist. Now if you'll excuse me I need to think about whether this review came from the fixed mindset.

12 people found this helpful

KUNAL GUPTA

Not worth it

Reviewed in India on 7 May 2019

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I bought the book on sheer ratings it got. But utterly disappointed. The writer made her point about growth mindset in first 5 pages. It was painful to go over the same point for 200+ pages. While she may be extremely passionate about the subject I could not remain engaged and lost interest very quickly.

The book is not for those having growth mindset.

Sorry Carol Dweck, I had to put my thoughts out there for my fellow readers.

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