1. As Dweck explains, a growth mindset is where a person is positive about the upcoming challenges being faced and believes that “their abilities could be developed”. Whereas with a fixed mindset, these persons look at these challenges as terrible things. She describes this as “having their intelligence up for judgment”, making these students believe they will fail.
  2. Instead of praising intelligence, praise the process that a person might take to get that good grade. “This process praise creates kids who are hearty and resilient”. Another way would be by transforming the meaning of effort and difficulty. This allows people to “make neuron connections”, helping them in the process of becoming more intelligent. I actually tend to agree with Dweck’s ideas on how to praise the effort it took to get that answer on a test because that then makes the student think of new creative ways to get an answer. They would no longer be searching for praise on how well they do on something.
  3. Dweck’s model of intelligence is similar in some ways but also varies in others. Instead of basing intelligence on the information acquired, it is more on the application of the knowledge. Intelligence comes in various ways. People can show it by how well they come up with creative writing ideas or how they get to an answer on a math problem, there is no limit.
  4. I have gone through plenty of fixed mindset moments in my life, as most of us do, but the one that sticks out to me the most is when I was in 3rd grade. I was never an avid reader, I actually despised it. Because of this, I was falling behind on my literacy which at the time wasn’t a big deal. I became stuck in this ongoing cycle of skipping the chapters we were supposed to read and faking my way out of it. This didn’t work and it was obvious in my test scores. My teacher was actually a person who really helped me push out of this mindset, as she would encourage me to find books of other types that the class wasn’t reading, that I would enjoy. She didn’t push me too hard where I would back off, but a little at a time to where I was actually beginning to enjoy reading. As I practiced more and more, I definitely was able to see an improvement and have always seen that moment in my learning career as an important one.