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- Bill GatesPositive review
“Revisiting Carol Dweck’s fascinating work on the growth mindset.”
Gates reviewed Mindset on December 7, 2015 and described its influence on the foundation’s education work.Source - Tobi LütkeRead and recommendedPraises Carol Dweck’s original book and discusses recognizing fixed-mindset responses while helping people learn.Source
Summary
Carol Dweck examines how beliefs about ability affect learning and responses to challenge. She contrasts a fixed mindset, which treats ability as settled, with a growth mindset, which treats it as something that can develop. Drawing on her psychology research, the book applies this distinction to school, work, sport and relationships, asking how people approach effort, setbacks and the development of their own and others’ skills.
Why read it Our view
Read it to examine the assumptions behind how you judge ability and respond to a setback. Dweck’s framework gives founders questions about feedback, opportunities to learn and whether a difficult task is treated as a test of identity or a chance to develop a skill.