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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success |  | Author: Carol Dweck
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345472322
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.8
EAN: 9780345472328
ASIN: 0345472322
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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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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 EXCELLENT! March 20, 2010
leeski316 (St. Louis,MO)
Just read it! I read a lot of the negative reviews and understand why they say what they do, but the poitives far outweigh any negatives. You and your children will all benefit.
Scientific but a bit overkill March 15, 2010
Tommie Gatlin (Nashville, TN, US)
Dr. Dweck is a giant in her field of motivation and I have followed her work on children and motivation,
Her book makes the science simple but the stories are a bit redundant. I prefer more topics on achievement and would recommend such
books as Flow (Dr. C) and Full Throttle (Dr. Gregg Steinberg)
 The further you reach, the more you grow. March 12, 2010
And Then Some Publishing LLC
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Review by Richard L. Weaver II, PhD.
Mindset is based on more than 20 years of research into personality, intelligence, and development, and it isn't her theme that caught my attention. What I found captivating is that in her book she identified two distinct approaches to life, with powerful implications." This is how Billings explains Dweck's bifurcation (dividing all of human behavior into two aspects):
"Those who believe that intelligence is God-given or intrinsic (the fixed mindset) are likely to stagnate, while those who think that aptitude is flexible and honed through experience (the growth mindset) tend to flourish and thrive" (p. 37).
Why is this piece of information so important? There are two reasons. First, throughout my professional career I have written and given speeches about motivation--how to be motivated and how to motivate others. Whether or not people are motivated is determined by mindset.
For persuaders, this is one piece of demographic information that might help them approach their listeners, because they would know, in advance, which listeners would be more likely to be affected or moved by their message.
Second, it offers a method of self-evaluation. That is, if you discovered which mindset best characterizes your own approach to life, in the first case it would provide information that would be self-explanatory. That is, it may reveal why you are unwilling to reach out, face challenges, and risk failure. It may reveal why you are more likely to protect yourself, seek security, and guard your safety. Your inability (or lack of desire) to face the unknown can be motivated by a desire to defend your vulnerability or to insulate yourself from danger.
If you discovered, instead, that aptitude is flexible and honed through experience, you would be able to build on this knowledge by taking further steps that would contribute to your growth, development, and change. It may explain how your personal program of reaching out, facing challenges, and risking failure directly correlates with your success and happiness. What a terrific incentive for continuing your program.
This equation is insightful. Also, it is invaluable for its self-motivating, self-determining, self-sufficiency.
The problem with the bifurcation that Dweck offers, of course, has the very same drawback as any bifurcation. Life tends to be made up of shades of gray and not aspects best defined by the starkness of black and white.
The problem can best be explained by saying that in situations where you feel qualified and knowledgeable, you are willing to take risks and face challenges. In traveling, for example, you may seek out unusual locations off the beaten track. In situations, however, where you are unqualified and less knowledgeable, you are less likely to take a risk or face a challenge. For example, you might be a terrible politician or lobbyist and rather than stick your neck out, you would rather crawl into a hole and hibernate.
Circumstances, too, would dictate the rate of speed by which success and happiness might occur. In some situations, growth and change would happen rapidly and with ease because you felt comfortable, encouraged it, and were determined.
One clear conclusion from reading Dweck's book, Mindset, is that mindsets are not set in stone. Thank goodness, because rigid thinking benefits no one. Thank goodness, too, because mindsets create our whole mental world. They not only explain how we become optimistic or pessimistic, shape our goals, determine our attitude toward work and relationships, affect how we raise our kids, and predict whether or not we will fulfill our potential, they are the path of opportunity and success.
 Maybe a good idea, written to the lowest common demoninator. Terrible. February 4, 2010
Katie (Seattle)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The basic concept of this book is at least moderately interesting but the author murders it to death with page after page of insipid vignettes and painfully trite cliches amounting to little more original or inspiring than "you can do anything you put your mind to". Many of the vignettes that are based on public figures are so cherry-picked, as far as what they present, that they're at best insultingly simplistic and at worst completely misrepresenting reality; sometimes the real story doesn't support the point she's trying to make at all. The chapter on sports is particularly painful. Later chapters are better, but it's all relative--they just didn't make me bash myself over the head with the book as much. What's really disappointing is that had she actually had enough faith in her readers to discuss her research in any depth or detail whatsoever, rather than repeatedly insulting their intelligence by failing to devote more than about a hundred words to any particular topic, this could have been genuinely interesting and, dare I say it, even inspiring.
Get a 1 page summary instead December 4, 2009
Reader (New York, NY USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Thankfully, this book is a quick read. Dweck makes an interesting and compelling point but you'd be better off finding a similar 1 page article somewhere on the web.
Here's one:[...]
I thought that the workshop chapter would go into some more detail. But it was mostly about the praise that Dweck gets for the workshop she sets up! I call that chutzpah.
Dweck makes the same point about 1,357 times.
And oh, the near constant bragging is very annoying. Good thing she got a position at Stanford; she's going to fit right in with the Palo Alto folks.
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