Critical Analysis Of Chapter 9 Of Grit By Angela Duckworth

According to Judy Willis, “When you are experiencing highly negative emotions or severe stress, incoming information is routed to a different part of your brain”. When the high-level thinking happens, the information routed is to the reactive lower brain. When that happens, the memory is affected, all active learning stops. A fourth way is recognized and valuing incremental progress boosts a person’s motivation and enables him or her to deal effectively with setbacks. According to Dweck, “people with growth mindsets, believe their abilities can be developed though dedication and hard work- brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have these qualities.” With a growth mindset, people realized by having a failure in the past don’t mean they will in the future.

Growth mindset and the fixed mindset: The two focal points of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success written by Carol Dweck. Pushing yourself further and further so that you can strengthen your intelligence, versus believing that the knowledge you know and have cannot be brought to a higher level. Even though the book was a difficult read, it really opens the mind to the different views on life, and the many ways that people go about their lives. How the fixed mindset may bring someone to success at first but later in their life lead them to a crisis. Or how the growth mindset may be difficult to grasp and achieve, but it will enact success in the future. The book advises ways to go from having the fixed mindset to the growth mindset, from saying things such as, “Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves… Even though

In Beyond Grit, Cindra Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world’s best use to gain the high performance edge. Kamphoff shares the tools and strategies she’s taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world’s best, she provides a practical, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide to radically accelerating your performance and improving your happiness.

A wise person said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” The book, Mindset written by Carol Dweck, is about the growth mindset and the fixed mindset. Dweck analyzed how these mindsets have an impact on a person’s ability to succeed academically. The book is crucial because it contains many brilliant ideas which, if individuals follow, will lead them to success. In her book, there are three chapters that cover learning, effort, failure, ability, accomplishment, and sports talent. Carol Dweck’s text Mindset addresses the current concern regarding academic success, with which I agree.

We learn from Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, that there are two different mindsets: the fixed and the growth. When you have a fixed mindset you think it is set in stone what your qualities and intelligence are. You usually lack motivation to try again, usually try to avoid challenges, they tend to ignore criticism; even if it’s just constructive, and they often feel threatened by other people’s success. A growth mindset is when you believe you can grow your basic qualities. You usually pick yourself back up when you get knocked down, embrace the challenges that are thrown at you, learn from criticism, and see the success of others as a form of learning.

Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success asserts that humans have two mindsets: a fixed mindset is the belief that traits, such as intelligence and personality, are permanent and the growth mindset is the belief that traits can be developed. Dweck supports this claim by sharing her research, personal reflections, celebrity examples, and various anecdotes in the contexts of athletics, business/leadership, relationships, and parenting/teaching/coaching. Dweck’s purpose is to enable readers to understand the two mindsets in order to develop growth mindsets. Writing in an informal tone that explains psychology using simple vocabulary supported by examples from clients to working professionals to pop culture icons, Dweck writes

Moreover, a growth mindset encourages directly and indirectly successful outcomes. High school engaged many instances of growth mindsets for me. At the end of my middle school career, I had managed to become a part of an amazing friend group, I had fantastic grades, and I was doing well in all aspects of my teenage life. Yet, a constant dilemma phased through my mind: I would lose all my friends consequent to the high school split. This had the power of striking panic in me, but instead I found myself thrilled for the next year to come so I could make all new friends. From the beginning, I was optimistic and ecstatic about starting off with a clean slate and that guided me into making a whole new friend group. These friends have given me unique

Growth Mindset: As an advantage to learn, you always take up challenges. You can learn when you fail. Therefore, take risks. You should seek challenges as well as try each thing differently. You are quite able to find out the real gems which can make you successful.

GROWTH MINDSET: I can’t fail. Even I get this one wrong, that doesn’t make me a failure. Most successful people have at one time failed in their career. Today they’re successful.

(T) Having a growth mindset helps understand that a failure is a gateway to success. With a growth mindset, we will learn from our failures and improve in the future by learning to avoid the mistakes. (E) In the video, Growing your mind by Khan Academy, it reveals that the more a person struggles, the more his or her brain is getting stronger. (A) When we struggle with a certain problem, we will think more about why it was wrong, which leads to using the brain more. (E) In the research, You Can Grow Your Brain by Health & Science, brain can grow stronger when you learn. (A) We are constantly learning new things every day and learning from our mistakes and failures help our brains stronger. We are enhancing our intelligence from our failures,

    People who believe in a growth mindset try harder to get where they want to be. According to Derek Sivers, “People in a growth mindset believe anyone can be good at anything” (Sivers). This shows that people who believe

There are different types of mindsets, a growth mindset, and a fixed mindset. Everyone has either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. It is the way the people think and react to different things. People with a growth mindset they embrace challenges. They take and learn from the criticism that they receive. People with a fixed mindset, they give up. They avoid taking challenges. They avoid any kind of criticism even the useful kind. A growth mindset helps and develops your intelligence. Failing helps you grow. Looking at challenges and going through with them help you grow.

My journey to my education started a long ago. It all started in the first grade when I had a setback and struggled in trying to learn how to read. The setback aspired me to work hard to achieve my goal in learning how to read. I knew that I had a growth mindset because according to Dweck “Those with a growth mindset reported that, after a setback in school, they would simply study more or study differently next time” (Dweck2). In other words, Dweck believes that those with a growth mindset want to learn and don’t want to give up.

Carol Dweck gave a TED talk about how we are to make the next generation of students successful. We are to do this by turning students with a fixed mindset into ones with a growth mindset and to reinforce that growth mindset. The basic difference between these mindsets is how one approaches challenge. Those with a fixed mindset resist challenge and run from difficulty. They desire to think the same way that they were thinking before they met challenge. Those with a growth mindset are not hindered by setbacks and want to continually gain knowledge despite difficulties. She portrays the fixed mindset as negative and the growth mindset as positive. She claims that we need more students in the growth mindset.

Angela Duckworth was a seventh-grade teacher in New York Public Schools, and became a psychologist. She is the author of the TED Talk “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”. The main point of this TED Talk is that having grit is what will help you to succeed in life. She asks herself, who is successful and why, and she concluded that people who succeed in life are those who have grit, which is the passion and perseverance to achieve every long-term goal. She emphasized that talent or social intelligent is not what will lead you to succeed, but the key that will help you to succeed are passion and perseverance. Those who can stick with their future goals for years and work hard to make that future a reality is more likely to succeed. Moreover, she explained in her speech that growth mindset is great for building grit, which based on the TED Talk people who have a growth mindset are those people that do not believe that failure is a permanent condition. In my point of view those people who have growth mindset are more likely to be successful in life.