Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet? A great introduction to this influential field.
So Carol Dweck gave the world the notion of the growth mindset, and so now, this is like universally known term. It's not always traced back to her, but it indeed originated from her.
How to outsmart it: Try to think of each failure as just another step on the road to progress by developing what Stanford University’s Carol Dweck (watch her TED talk) and other psychology researchers call a “growth mindset.” When you cultivate this kind of mindset, Crowell says, “these rookie mistakes lose their significance.
Psychologist Carol Dweck discusses the concept of a growth mindset and how believing in improvement can enhance learning and problem-solving abilities.
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