Our new podcast deep-dives into Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck’s modern analysis of the growth mindset in self-improvement, personal growth, and emotional intelligence. Dweck delves into the fundamental reasons why the growth mindset helps motivate individuals, teams, and senior managers to accomplish more with greater grit, focus, and resilience.
The original blog article is available on our AYA fintech network platform. https://ayafintech.network/blog/self-improvement-book-review-mindset-by-carol-dweck/
This fun podcast is about 10 minutes long (with smart AI podcast generation from Google NotebookLM). https://bit.ly/3HGF67P
Stanford psychology professor Dr Carol Dweck delves into some scientific reasons why the growth mindset often helps motivate individuals, teams, and managers to accomplish more with greater grit, focus, resilience, persistence, and so forth. The new psychology of success suggests that many people apply the growth mindset to better adapt to structural changes in the world. This adaptation further improves human relationships, intellectual worldviews, and personal growth advancements with smarter, better, and more flexible personality traits, leadership styles, scientific research pursuits, entrepreneurial ventures, and other lifelong endeavors. Instead of raw intelligence, the growth mindset empowers each person to make conscious efforts to learn new lessons, insights, worldviews, and other ideas, and this growth mindset often leads to lifelong opportunities for personal growth, wisdom, maturity, disruptive innovation, technological advancement, and entrepreneurial success.
The world comprises 2 dramatically different groups of people with regard to their respective mindsets. The first group includes people who are open to learning new lessons, insights, ideas, mindsets, and worldviews. By contrast, the second group spans people who seek closure on lifelong opportunities for further improvements. Dweck describes, discusses, and delves into key scientific research articles, news stories, and anecdotes about the pros and cons of both mindsets. As a result, key stories about Michael Jordan, Lee Iacocca, John McEnroe, Wilma Rudolph, Babe Ruth, and some others find their respective places in Dweck’s rare unique insights into the growth mindset. Dweck argues that each one of us can have both mindsets with respect to different aspects of life. Her major insight shows that we often need to apply the growth mindset for further improvements ahead. As we learn to apply the growth mindset more often, we adjust, refine, and even totally change our basic tendency to seek closure. Dweck also extends her major insight by viewing almost all areas of human relationships today. Specifically, she makes efforts to show the vital and practical relevance of the growth mindset in leadership and management. In essence, the growth mindset often conveys more positive lifelong opportunities. This positive growth mindset can help motivate individuals, teams, and managers to accomplish more with greater grit, focus, perseverance, and resilience.
People who believe they can further improve their personality traits over time retain the vital growth mindset. With this growth mindset, these people believe the future presents an opportunity to grow even during hard times. Although various mindsets produce definite worldviews, many people learn to adapt their respective mindsets in response to different aspects of life. Children who often receive parental praises for their raw intelligence tend to reject new challenges without the growth mindset. By contrast, Jack Welch, who had a growth mindset in business management, took over GE in 1980 when the company secured its stock market capitalization of only $14 billion. After Welch applied his growth mindset for further improvements in all parts of the company’s core operations over 20 years, GE grew substantially to an impressive $490 billion stock market valuation in 2000. Also, athletes with a growth mindset build better, stronger, and mature characters by challenging themselves to stretch their physical limits, talents, and capabilities over time. Several legendary athletes from Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and Tiger Woods to Usain Bolt and Shohei Ohtani leverage their rare unique growth mindset to incrementally sharpen their respective physical strengths, skills, talents, core competences, and dynamic capabilities over many years.
The growth mindset specifies the rare unique worldview for highly effective people: we can cause profound but incremental changes in our respective personality traits, leadership styles, entrepreneurial ventures, scientific research pursuits, intellectual advances, and other lifelong endeavors for further personal growth advancements. In human history, business cofounders, entrepreneurs, and visionary leaders apply the growth mindset to build great teams before they make great impact in the world. Good entrepreneurial examples include Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Elon Musk (PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and so on), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta-Facebook), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Jack Ma (Alibaba), and Sam Altman (OpenAI), among others. With the rare unique growth mindset, these business leaders tend to work harder when they learn to confront the brutal facts, setbacks, failures, obstacles, difficulties, and disappointments in many unforeseen circumstances, episodes, and vicissitudes of life. Throughout their hard, arduous, and relentless entrepreneurial ventures, these business leaders blaze the trail, innovate new solutions, remain resilient, move fast, and even disrupt some strategic sectors worldwide. The core passion for stretching oneself is the mainstream hallmark of the growth mindset. The growth mindset can often emerge front-and-center when these leaders bounce back better from defeat, denial, and adversity in many different aspects of life. These leaders learn to delay gratification to wait patiently for good results to come to fruition in time. Over many years, these leaders tend to accomplish substantially more with greater grit, focus, and resilience.
Although most people are not accurate at estimating their own potential capabilities, different mindsets often cause significant implications for life, work, research, study, and other human endeavors. Without the growth mindset, people often tend to take each failure personally. Indeed, these people interpret any setback, defeat, denial, and disappointment as a lifelong message of rejection. These rare life events span career detours, broken relations, peer pressures, unhappy marriages, workplace difficulties, and parental judgments. Feeling each failure exacerbates their low self-esteem. Without the growth mindset, these people work hard to hide their common flaws, faults, and weaknesses. At the same time, however, these people think it is impossible to change their personality traits, relationships, human interactions, and other lifelong endeavors.
By contrast, many people apply the growth mindset to appreciate the fact that they can change their personality traits incrementally over time. With the positive growth mindset, these people believe their skills, talents, core competencies, and dynamic capabilities can grow substantially over many years. These people are more likely to build on their raw intelligence. With the rare, unique, and positive growth mindset, these people serve as lifelong learners. Indeed, these people would feel frustration if they cannot further develop their potential capabilities. The growth mindset helps these people better cope with fear, stress, pain, panic, pressure, anxiety, and many other negative emotions.
The growth mindset can further help determine leadership qualities and intellectual worldviews. Some recent experiments show that medical students with no growth mindset would lose active interest in an important class when they earned subpar grades. On the contrary, the same recent experiments show that medical students who garner the growth mindset would work harder to eventually thrive as the class became more difficult. In these experiments, the initial grades reshaped, reinforced, and amplified subsequent student performance in accordance with their respective mindsets.
Different mindsets play a crucial role in further developing raw natural talents. From runners and swimmers to actors, musicians, and stand-up comedians, exceptional performers did not show their raw talents until they studied, applied, and leveraged these raw talents in their respective sub-fields. For instance, Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven worked hard on their musical talents for almost one decade before they composed memorable music at a later stage. Moreover, many artists and inventors share, apply, and leverage the growth mindset to learn incrementally with iterative continuous improvements over many years before they become mature enough to thrive in due course. No one should rely solely on his or her raw talents. Mindsets are highly specific to diverse talents, so some artist may be more open to learning new ideas, insights, lessons, and concepts, but this artist may be socially awkward with more restrictive human interactions.
With the growth mindset, people may not need greater self-esteem, confidence, or external validation all the time. Many people who often suffer from depression tend to work hard productively to solve their problems with emotional intelligence. At the same time, these people work hard to further maintain their school schedules, work demands, lifestyle preferences, and outside interests. For these people who retain the growth mindset, internal motivation often serves as the mainstream momentum for peak performance, instead of parental approval and external validation (carrots, sticks, and other incentives).
Without a growth mindset, people react differently to external rewards and praises. Children who often receive parental praises for their raw intelligence tend to reject new challenges. In tests, exams, and math competitions, these children wanted to bask in their past successes and so did not want to risk revealing their flaws, faults, and weaknesses. Some recent experiments further show that students who were told that they had high capabilities did not like attempting to solve harder problems. For these students with no growth mindset, the extra work took away their fun, joy, and pleasure in learning new ideas, lessons, insights, and concepts. At the same time, students who received praises on their extra efforts showed that they enjoyed working on the harder problems. In these recent trials, praising a child’s raw ability even worked to reduce his or her total IQ score, but praising a child for trying harder raised his or her total IQ score. In essence, the growth mindset empowers children to seek new challenges in a proactive fashion. In turn, these new challenges further empower children to thrive in trying to solve hard problems.
As these experimental results suggest, it can be harmful for parents and teachers to label students as exceptional kids. Such labels are similar to negative racial and sexual stereotypes. Indeed, such labels may make students feel inferior with some negative self-fulfilling prophecy. In a vicious cycle, these labels seem to encourage students not to live up to their potential dynamic capabilities. When people believe these almost near-perfect labels and stereotypes, they often exaggerate and even lie about their real, true, and genuine accomplishments. The opinions of others can cause collateral damage too. When school teachers tell young girls they may not be good at math and science, these labels and stereotypes would drive these girls to consistently under-perform in these subjects. As some studies show, adolescent boys who were told to validate negative stereotypes about girls eventually boosted their confidence and self-esteem to outperform in these math and science subjects. The growth mindset seems to help reinforce these memes, labels, and stereotypes in practice.
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/43O7TzP
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/self-improvement-book-review-emotional-intelligence-by-daniel-goleman/
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/3FUTSHs
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/self-improvement-book-review-the-power-of-habit-by-charles-duhigg/
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/3FJ3fKl
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/self-improvement-book-review-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things-by-ben-horowitz/
Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck describes, discusses, and delves into the reasons why the growth mindset helps motivate individuals, teams, and senior managers to accomplish more with greater grit, focus, and resilience.
Podcast: https://bit.ly/3HGF67P
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/self-improvement-book-review-mindset-by-carol-dweck/
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZnNMG7
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/mainstream-legal-origins-of-recent-trump-tariffs/
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/4iuWuJ9
Article: https://ayafintech.network/blog/american-exceptionalism-turns-out-to-be-the-heuristic-rule-of-thumb-for-better-economic-growth-low-stable-inflation-full-employment-macro-financial-stability/
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Podcast: https://bit.ly/42SwrXG
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