Beliefs about ability
Dweck’s work examines how beliefs about whether ability can develop affect responses to difficulty and feedback. Mindset brings that research into a popular account.
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Carol Dweck
Psychologist and author of Mindset
A psychologist who studies how beliefs about ability shape motivation, learning, and responses to setbacks.
Her work offers a way to examine the meaning people give to difficulty: a verdict on ability, or information that can guide what to try next. Mindset is the selected introduction here.
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A psychologist who studies how beliefs about ability shape motivation, learning, and responses to setbacks.
The response to a setback
A setback can be interpreted as evidence about a fixed capacity or as information for further learning. That difference is central to the selected book.
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Carol S. Dweck · The New Psychology of Success
Dweck’s account of how beliefs about whether abilities can develop influence learning, effort, and responses to difficulty.
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