I am enjoying the book Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. I like how it explained the two different mindsets, Growth mindset and Fixed mindset. Growth mindset is, in my own words, when you know that you are in control of how intelligent and skilled you can become. While a Fixed mindset is, in my own words, thinking that you are born with how intelligent and skilled you are and you can not change that.
I feel like most people would want to believe that they have a Growth mindset while in actuality they have a Fixed mindset. In our society I think that people look at talented people and think, "They were born like that and theres no way I can be as talented as them." When in actuality if you read bibliographies of movie stars, musicians, singers, sports stars, ect, most talk about all the time and effort that they put into their work. We as a society need to move away from the Fixed mindset.
The way that I think that this connects with motivation is with the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that we talked about. Intrinsic has to do with motivation coming from inside you, such as wanted to learn something because it is interesting to you. While extrinsic motivation is motivation from the outside, such as money or a grade that you could get. Intrinsic motivation is related to the Growth mindset and extrinsic motivation is related to the Fixed mindset.
So now think about yourself, do you think that you have a Growth mindset or a Fixed mindset? If you have a Fixed mindset what can you do to change that?
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