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It can change their mindsets from fixed to growth. Just the words “yet” or “not yet,” give students greater confidence and persistence. This encourages more effort, more engagement over longer periods of time, and more resilience. Rather than praising their intelligence or talent, praise the process that children engage in – their effort, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance, and their improvement. So how do you raise children to develop growth mindsets? But students with the growth mindset engage deeply with their difficulties, learn from their errors and find ways to correct them. Sometimes they look for someone who does worse than they do, so they can feel better about themselves. Students with a fixed mindset often avoid or disengage from difficult activities. But other students feel being given challenging tasks is catastrophic, their intelligence is being judged and they fear failing. These types of students have a growth mindset – they understand that their abilities can be developed. When students are given challenging tasks that are slightly too hard for them some of them react in a positive way by saying things like “I love a challenge”. In this TED Talk by Carol find out how two simple words shifted mindsets in children, and how they might help you at work. She has found that it helps to make you smarter, more successful and can also improve your relationships with others.īut let’s be honest for most of us embracing failure is easier said than done when it comes to our professional reputations and livelihoods. Developing a growth mindset helps you regard failures and setbacks as just part of a learning process, and gives you the motivation and persistence to master new skills. Professor Carol Dweck from Stanford University suggests when it comes to achieving success, more important than believing in your abilities is the belief that you can improve upon your abilities. How do you face up to challenges or difficult tasks at work? Do you avoid them because you worry that if you fail others will think you don’t have the ability, intelligence or talent to do your job? Or do enthusiastically take them on, hoping that any mistakes you make will be an opportunity to learn and improve?