Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

For them, it was about understanding, forgiving, and moving on.

Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.

happens by helping them gain the skills and find the resources to make progress toward their goals.

When people with a fixed mindset talk about their conflicts, they assign blame. Sometimes they blame themselves, but often they blame their partner. And they assign blame to a trait—a character flaw.

But that’s different from assuming it as an entitlement.

Studies by Peter Heslin, Don VandeWalle, and Gary Latham show that many managers do not believe in personal change. These fixed-mindset managers simply look for existing talent—they judge employees as competent or incompetent at the start and that’s that.

Their brain waves showed them paying close attention when they were told whether their answers were right or wrong.

Part of the low-effort belief is the idea that couples should be able to read each other’s minds:

They say they feel as though their traits are being measured all the time.