Psychology - Mindset Gavin Carvalho
What is a mindset? What does Self-belief and Action it influence? Optimism and Perspective Growth Mindset vs Fixed Can Mindset’s Change? Mindset How to Change Mindset’s? What kind of mindset do you have? Quiz with scoring system Resources on Mindset Change Scores and feedback from quiz Tips For Parents – Growth Overview Mindset Praise What are the key Characteristics of the growth Consequences of belief (chart – mindset? fixed vs growth) Concrete Planning Does growth mindset correlate with achievement Challenges and Failures References Did you know?
What is a Mindset? What does it influence? • The Mindset is defined simply as the established set of attitudes held by someone. • It is the foundation of everything that we do. It affects our decisions, thought process and the actions that you take in everyday situations. Importantly, it also governs how you deal with unexpected situations that you may face daily.
The Two Mindsets: Growth and Fixed Growth Min indset Fix ixed Min indset The belief that each person is born with Based on the belief that your innate qualities (intelligence, qualities (intelligence, athletic personality, character) that cannot be ability etc.) can be developed with changed regardless of effort, effort, strategy, and help from environment or education. others. Everyone can change and Effort is viewed as a sign of not being grow through application and smart. It must come naturally. experience. “You either have it or you don’t”
1. Your intelligence is 3. No matter how something very basic What kind of much intelligence you about you that you mindset do you have, you can always can’t change very have? - change it quite a bit. much Read the statements and decide if you 2. You can learn new 4. You can always mostly agree or things, but you can’t substantially change disagree with it. really change how how intelligent you intelligent you are. are. Carol Dweck, Mindset
Statements 1 and 2 are fixed mindset questions, whereas 3 and 4 are growth mindset questions. Which statements did you agree with most? Feedback It is possible to have elements of both mindsets, but most people lean towards one mindset. Carol Dweck, Mindset
Be e a good pla lanner – plan effective and efficient ways to get your tasks done. Accept and em embrace challenges – View each challenge as an opportunity to improve and learn something new. Sel elf-belief – They believe that they can always improve themselves. This does not mean they believe they can do anything or be the best at anything they want but What are the key instead the belief that they can improve at anything they want. characteristics of Embrace fa fail ilures – We all fail. Growth minded people look at failures as opportunities to learn and grow. Be resilient. the growth mindset? Be e opti timistic – View each situation in a positive way, this has a very positive effect on health and well being. Be e activ tive – Take action to achieve goals at the appropriate time
Create concrete plans to achieve or perform tasks or goals that you can visualize. Research has proven that just writing down the where and when of completing a task increases the probability of completing the task by 80%. For example, if the players wrote down when and where they Concrete planning intend to practice the skills they wanted to improve from their player profile, they would be far more likely to complete those practice sessions and achieve their goals for improvement.
Challenges and Failures Challenges and failures are viewed very simply as an opportunity to improve. Growth minded people understand that if at first they do not succeed, it is an opportunity for them to work harder and smarter. They will be resilient and always look for new solutions. Growth minded people value the journey of improvement more than the joy at the finish. Once a goal has been completed, the mentality is to move on to the next challenge and continue to improve. They are likely playing the infinite game.
Do growth minded people believe that they can be the best at anything they want to do? No, that is not the case. Growth minded people have the self-belief to know that they can improve any characteristic of theirs with time, effort, strategy and the right mindset. Self-Belief and Action People with good self-belief are also more liable to respond more positively to failure. They will likely work harder on the task during the next attempt. According to Dweck, they are more likely to follow through on the task as they enjoy the journey or process more.
Did you know? Darwin and Tolstoy were considered ordinary children? That Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers of all time, was completely uncoordinated and graceless as a child? That the photographer Cindy Sherman, who has been on virtually every list of the most important artists of the twentieth century, failed her first photography class? That Geraldine Page, one of our greatest actresses, was advised to give up for a lack of talent? Did you know that Michael Jordan did not make his High School Varsity team during his sophomore year? – Carol Dweck
Growth minded people will often look at situations in a positive way and find an optimistic interpretation for why it may have happened. For Example, an employee who has not had the best performance of late shows up late to work and is poorly dressed. The fixed mindset leader will look at the employee and reflect his attire and performance as poor due to poor work Optimism and ethic, desire or commitment. The employee may even get fired. The growth mindset leader will aim to find out what happened Perspective to the employee. Is everything ok at home? How is the family? How is he/she’s health? Once they get to know the employee, they can then proceed to figure out a strategy to help that employee perform better.
Can mindset’s change? • Yes, mindsets can change with time, effort and strategy. • The majority of the difference in the two mindsets comes from the awareness, perception and reaction to the same event. For example, a 7 th grader has just started middle school after attaining very good • grades in elementary school. However, with the added difficulty in 7 th grade testing, his first mid term grades were D’s and F’s. For the fixed mindset student, this failure would mean that he was not smart enough, that academics might not be their strongest asset and could respond with less effort for the next test as effort is a sign of them not being smart. For the growth mindset student, they see the failure as added motivation to succeed. They understand that they need to put more effort and find a more efficient strategy to complete their homework and study for tests. They will also be more receptible to feedback on how to improve.
A key ingredient in switching mindsets is being self-aware and having the will to change. It is important that we set clear, achievable goals and a concrete plan to carry it out. When faced with failure, a key term to be used is “not yet”, which translates to “I have not learned that yet” or “I do not have a solution yet” How can mindsets change?
Dr. Alia Crum – Change your mindset, Change the game - https://youtu.be/0tqq66zwa7g Dr. Carol Dweck’s presentation on growth mindset at google - https://youtu.be/-71zdXCMU6A Resources on Mindset Web Learning: There are FREE classes available through the PERTS research at Stanford Change University at the website below that provide great information for parents in helping them learn their role in the process of helping their children adopt a growth mindset. https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents/learn-about-growth- mindset/what-is-growth-mindset-parents
Tips for Parents – Growth Mindset Praise Do’s Don’t’s Focus on strategy – “I really liked how you found a new way to solve that problem” Effort – “You have been working really hard, you have been Do not focus on qualities that could be improving” stable like talent or intelligence. Mistakes – “I love mistakes as they are opportunities to learn and improve, what did you learn from your experience today?”
References Blessof, D. (2017. January 19). Adopting a growth mindset for the new year. Retrieved March 30, 2020 from https://www.relativity.com/blog/adopting-a-growth-mindset-for- the-new-year/ Loehr, J. E., & Schwartz, T. (n.d.). The power of full engagement Dweck, C. (2017) Mindset Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential. London: Robinson.
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