If you are looking for an audio book that can help you make positive change in your attitudes and enable you to see life in a new way, this is your pick. Carol Dweck leads us through her research in motivation and the psychology of personality to show us that our mindset is no mere quirk of personality: it dictates our world.
Our mindset is how we become cynical or hopeful; it shapes what we believe we can achieve, our attitudes about working and relating to people; it shapes how we raise our children; and ultimately, it predicts whether we will fulfill our hidden potential.
The two mindsets Dweck outlines are that of a fixed mindset, and that of a growth mindset. If yours is fixed, you think your gifts and strengths are fixed--you got 'em or you don't. You constantly, and sometimes unintentionally, try to prove yourself to others. If yours is one of growth, you think you can develop and strengthen your gifts over time. This is the mindset of successful people.
Dweck adeptly demonstrates that our mindset begins in childhood and through adulthood, it steers everything from hobbies, relationships, parenting, and work. She shows how creative geniuses from every background use the growth mindset to get the results they want. More importantly, she shows us that we can change our mindset, no matter our stage in life. She also helps us apply this growth mindset in order to promote it in others that we influence.
Pragmatic and engaging, Mindset just might change what you think about yourself, and your future.
Carol Dweck is a distinguished professor of psychology at Stanford University and received her post-doctorate from Yale University. Her research focuses on motivation, personality, and development.
"Mindset is a life changing book. I read this book as requested by the principal at my work, and I now view life through a different lense than I previously did. Mindset is full of examples comparing and contrasting the fixed and growth mindsets. No one should go through life without this information. Mindset teaches the reader the importance of self development and the sink or swin consequences of the fixed mindset. I recommend this book to everyone. It is the first truly life changing book I have had the pleasure to read."
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Eric (5 out of 5 stars)