https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLPxDtMqe8
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Chapter 2: Inside the Mindsets
1. When do you feel smart? When you're doing something flawlessly or when you're learning something new?
2. How can we shift our thinking/beliefs to make striving, stretching, and struggling into something that makes us feel smart?
3. Did you ever label yourself a failure or loser after something negative happened-failing a test, losing a job, being rejected? Describe a time this happened. How could you have made more like Jim Marshall, who made his humiliating experience into a life changing opportunity?
2. How can we shift our thinking/beliefs to make striving, stretching, and struggling into something that makes us feel smart?
3. Did you ever label yourself a failure or loser after something negative happened-failing a test, losing a job, being rejected? Describe a time this happened. How could you have made more like Jim Marshall, who made his humiliating experience into a life changing opportunity?
Chapter 1: The Mindsets
1. As you read through Chapter 1 what:
a) surprised you?
b) made you feel uncomfortable?
c) did you agree/disagree with?
2. Can you think of a time you faced an important opportunity or challenge with a fixed mindset? What were your thoughts and worries about your abilities? about other people's judgements? about the possibility of failure? Describe these situations.
a) surprised you?
b) made you feel uncomfortable?
c) did you agree/disagree with?
2. Can you think of a time you faced an important opportunity or challenge with a fixed mindset? What were your thoughts and worries about your abilities? about other people's judgements? about the possibility of failure? Describe these situations.
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