Leadership

You can do it! The power of believing you can improve

We’ve heard the term bandied about, but what exactly are we talking about when we talk about a growth mindset?

By Future Women

Leadership

We’ve heard the term bandied about, but what exactly are we talking about when we talk about a growth mindset?

By Future Women

Perhaps the easiest way to think about the term ‘growth mindset’ in relation to this anecdote, shared by Carol Dweck, the founder of the term and a pioneering researcher in the field of motivation.

Curious to see how children coped with difficulty, she gave a group of 10-year-olds a series of problems that were slightly too hard for them. She was surprised by the results. A portion of the children responded with overwhelming positivity, sharing insights like, ‘I love a challenge!’ and ‘I was hoping this would be informative’. Others responded negatively, ‘catastrophically’ as she describes it, believing that their intelligence was up for judgement, and that they had failed.

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