Growth mindsets aren’t just for students. It helps for teachers to have a growth mindset about their students’ mindsets, too. A teacher’s classroom approach shapes whether their students believe they ...

"Mindset" by Dr. Carol S. Dweck, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, has been a powerful part of my philosophy on life -- both personally and professionally -- since discovering it ...

Dweck says we all have some fixed mindsets, but we also have the power to change them. The psychologist’s straightforward — but challenging — class assignment is a sure way to do that. Many people ...

I began Carol Dweck's book Mindset hopeful she would provide the clue to my eternal problem, getting from Here to There. "There" being across a chasm to where the *real* successful people are. I ...

Some years ago, as I passed through the Center for Teaching and Learning at the private college where I’d been asked to give a workshop for faculty on writing and publishing, I saw a big stack of ...

Applying a growth mindset means allowing mistakes and viewing effort as an essential part of growth. Source: Jeshoots/Unsplash In a previous post found here, I outlined some recent criticisms of Carol ...

“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.” ― Carol ...

Imagine unlocking the secret to achieving personal and professional success simply by shifting your thoughts. This simple yet captivating concept has garnered widespread attention as individuals, ...