Dr. Len Hightower, the author of the article Success: Entering the Mirror Maze, aim to demonstrate people’s impotent of having a growth mindset, leading to an obscure future. Writing to the broad readers -- specifically educated individuals -- the author addresses the dominance a fixed mindset have over a growth mindset. To convey his purpose, Hightower creates his article using the shifting from third person to first person perspective, an em dash punctuations, and appositive phrases. One unique feature of Hightower article involves a third person perspective shifting to a first person perspective, illustrating the incapability of having a growth mindset. From paragraph one to five, Hightower write in third person to indicate that the subject, a fixed mindset, is not …show more content…
Hightower includes em dash punctuations to set apart parenthetical phrases or clauses in a sentence. For instance, “Dweck posits that successful people -- children who do well in school, powerful CEO’s, and those highly recognized…” (paragraph 1), is set in em dash to replace comma that would otherwise sound awkward if enclosed by comma. Equally important, em dash can go in parenthese to break in thought such as “it’s only fitting that the transformation from ordinary person to Hollywood icon…--- as if stardom somehow elevates the human condition…” (paragraph 2). In fact, Hightower provided an excellent example of em dash clarification from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Gatsby’s mind, all along, was fixated upon the single illusory green light of hope -- the money, the car, the girl, the success” (paragraph 7). The em dash can be used in a variety of situations, particularly in Hightower’s article, the author utilize em dashes to emphasis or provide charity the common goal and traits of success a fixed mindset individual shared. Furthermore, em dashes can triggered an informative tone and create attentive mood drawing readers to read further into his
Growth mindset seems to be a good thing and a goal for us all to achieve. For some kids it was hard for them because they weren’t smart enough and they hard a fixed mindset meaning they weren’t up for the challenge when it comes to smartness. “They were gripped in the tyranny of now” she said and next time they will probably cheat their way through. Basically they ran from there difficulties. Growth mindset can learn from their mistakes and fix them. She asks the question what is the goal for our children.
This is a video was posted on the khan academy’s website where the founder, Sal Khan interviews Carol Dweck a professor of psychology, Stanford. The main aim of this interview is to inform all people about growth mindset and how you can grow and challenge it. Deweck described growth
Growth mindset and the fixed mindset: The two focal points of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success written by Carol Dweck. Pushing yourself further and further so that you can strengthen your intelligence, versus believing that the knowledge you know and have cannot be brought to a higher level. Even though the book was a difficult read, it really opens the mind to the different views on life, and the many ways that people go about their lives. How the fixed mindset may bring someone to success at first but later in their life lead them to a crisis. Or how the growth mindset may be difficult to grasp and achieve, but it will enact success in the future. The book advises ways to go from having the fixed mindset to the growth mindset, from saying things such as, “Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves… Even though
The way that people think about their ability to change and grow can impact their lives. In her book, Mindset: The new psychology of success, Carol Dweck introduces this way of viewing of the world as our mindsets. She proposes that there are two different types of mindsets: growth and fixed. People with a growth mindset see their abilities as something that can be cultivated and changed through effort. They are more willing to take chances to learn and grow.
In an article called “Brainology” Carol S. Dweck argues that there is a fixed mindset and growth mindset and I agree because Dweck says “not everyone has the same abilities or that someone can be as smart as Einstein, but Einstein wasn’t even Einstein until he put in the years of focused hard work.” So this tells me that if you have a fixed mindset you’ll be afraid to look smart so rather look dumb. On the other hand, if you have a growth mindset you’ll put in the hard work and achieve greatness. So either give up or we fight for what we want. We’ll either fail and quit or fail and get back on the horse and be something in
The author draws attention to several key points. First, those with a growth mindset aren't discouraged
A wise person said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” The book, Mindset written by Carol Dweck, is about the growth mindset and the fixed mindset. Dweck analyzed how these mindsets have an impact on a person’s ability to succeed academically. The book is crucial because it contains many brilliant ideas which, if individuals follow, will lead them to success. In her book, there are three chapters that cover learning, effort, failure, ability, accomplishment, and sports talent. Carol Dweck’s text Mindset addresses the current concern regarding academic success, with which I agree.
Mindset is a set of attitudes held by someone and the way people think and believe in. In addition to this, there’s a ‘fixed mindset’ where it creates an urgency to prove to ourselves over and over an idea that we have set in our mind. The essay “Excerpt from Self-theories” was written by Carol Dweck. This essay was written to inform the reader the difference from a fixed mindset, a growth mindset, and how one copes with failure. I feel that I was able to connect and relate to Dweck’s essay. Not only was I able to relate to Dweck’s essay, but I also agree with her main facts and points that she mentions in her article. Therefore, I agree with Dweck’s methods and how a fixed mindset limits one’s ability to learn.
Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success asserts that humans have two mindsets: a fixed mindset is the belief that traits, such as intelligence and personality, are permanent and the growth mindset is the belief that traits can be developed. Dweck supports this claim by sharing her research, personal reflections, celebrity examples, and various anecdotes in the contexts of athletics, business/leadership, relationships, and parenting/teaching/coaching. Dweck’s purpose is to enable readers to understand the two mindsets in order to develop growth mindsets. Writing in an informal tone that explains psychology using simple vocabulary supported by examples from clients to working professionals to pop culture icons, Dweck writes
Many people have an incorrect stereotype about an idea that says children born with either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset since this idea determines whether a person is going to be successful or unsuccessful. Unfortunately, the researchers have discovered that the mindsets are changeable even for adults. However, changing from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset is beneficial because it helps students to reach their goals; moreover, the effects of this change could emerge in learning more, relishing challenges, and working hard.
One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves, Dweck found in her research, has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. A “fixed mindset” is that we assumes that our intelligence, character, and creativity are static traits givens which we can’t change in any way, and success is the allegation of that inborn intelligence, an estimate of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; aiming for prosperity and dodging failure becomes a way of claiming the sense of being smart or skilled. A “growth mindset,” on the other hand, emphasis on challenge and sees failure as evidence of unintelligence but as a positive bounce
Eduardo Briceno described two types of mindsets that can either enhance or hinder a person’s growth. I believe both terms of fixed and growth mindsets hold much validity in today’s society. We can see how children are affected by parents’ praise or how children perform differently from encouragement in the school. The same is true for someone like myself who’s in her 20’s. My beliefs are more consistent with the growth mindset, because my psychology courses have given me bounds of evidence that your perspective can change how you succeed. I know how important it is to have a positive perspective. One example that comes to mind is Jane Elliot’s “Blue eyes-Brown eyes” exercise. This study displayed how children would do poorly in school if they were told people with a different eye color were better. The children that were told they would do poorly did just that because they internalized the information and got stuck in the perspective that they would always do terribly.
This summer, I read Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The Psychology of Success. Dweck’s work, identifies fixed and growth mindsets. She also explains how mindsets can be reprogrammed.
people possess. The “Growth” mindset which is basically the positive outlook on life, and the
People with the growth mind are brave enough to face everything and do something about it.