Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Mindset: the new psychology of success

2008 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2006 by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2007.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jeremy P. Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), for permission to reprint four illustrations from pp. 18–19 of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook by Betty Edwards, copyright © 2003 by Betty Edwards. Reprinted by permission of Jeremy P. Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA).

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Mindset: the new psychology of success / Carol S. Dweck

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eISBN: 978-1-58836-523-1

1. Belief and doubt. 2. Success—Psychological aspects. I. Title.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

1. THE MINDSETS

Why Do People Differ?

What Does All This Mean for You? The Two Mindsets

A View from the Two Mindsets

So, What’s New?

Self-Insight: Who Has Accurate Views of Their Assets and Limitations?

What’s in Store

2. INSE THE MINDSETS

Is Success About Learning—or Proving You’re Smart?

Mindsets Change the Meaning of Failure

Mindsets Change the Meaning of Effort

Questions and Answers

3. THE TRUTH ABOUT ABILITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT

Mindset and School Achievement

Is Artistic Ability a Gift?

The Danger of Praise and Positive Labels

Negative Labels and How They Work

4. SPORTS: THE MINDSET OF A CHAMPION

The Idea of the Natural

“Character”

What Is Success?

What Is Failure?

Taking Charge of Success

What Does It Mean to Be a Star?

Hearing the Mindsets

5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIP

Enron and the Talent Mindset

Organizations That Grow

A Study of Mindset and Management Decisions

Leadership and the Fixed Mindset

Fixed-Mindset Leaders in Action

Growth-Mindset Leaders in Action

A Study of Group Processes

Groupthink Versus We Think

The Praised Generation Hits the Workforce

Are Negotiators Born or Made?

Corporate Training: Are Managers Born or Made?

Are Leaders Born or Made?

6. RELATIONSHIPS: MINDSETS IN LOVE (OR NOT)

Relationships Are Different

Mindsets Falling in Love

The Partner as Enemy

Competition: Who’s the Greatest?

Developing in Relationships

Friendship

Shyness

Bullies and Victims: Revenge Revisited

7. PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COACHES: WHERE DO MINDSETS COME FROM?

Parents (and Teachers): Messages About Success and Failure

Teachers (and Parents): What Makes a Great Teacher (or Parent)?

Coaches: Winning Through Mindset

Our Legacy

8. CHANGING MINDSETS

The Nature of Change

The Mindset Lectures

A Mindset Workshop

Brainology

More About Change

Taking the First Step

People Who Don’t Want to Change

Changing Your Child’s Mindset

Mindset and Willpower

Maintaining Change