They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a fixed mindset, students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. In Dweck’s words ‘the fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you’ll be judged, the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving’. This test comes early in Mindset, first published in 2006 by Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University.
So what’s the difference? And why does it matter? If you agreed with statements 3 and 4, you likely have a ‘growth mindset’. If you mostly agree with statements 1 and 2, you may have a ‘fixed mindset’. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bitĤ. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you areģ. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very muchĢ. Which mindset do you have? Read each statement and decide if you mostly agree with it or disagree with it:ġ.
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