Embracing a Growth Mindset 🌎
Languages: English, French, Spanish (North America)
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Description: Our brains continue to develop and change, even as adults. With some time and effort, we can even change our thinking patterns about ourselves and our abilities, and how we approach learning and challenging situations. Having a growth mindset, instead of a fixed mindset, has some major benefits. It can help us grow personally and professionally, and it can help prevent burnout, anxiety, and depression. In this subject, learners are taught how to identify fixed and growth mindsets, and best practices they can use to foster a growth mindset for themselves.
Languages: English, French, Spanish (North America)
Media Editing: The video module(s) in this subject are editable under our Content Studio offering unless otherwise indicated. For more information about Content Studio, contact your CSM.
Description: Our brains continue to develop and change, even as adults. With some time and effort, we can even change our thinking patterns about ourselves and our abilities, and how we approach learning and challenging situations. Having a growth mindset, instead of a fixed mindset, has some major benefits. It can help us grow personally and professionally, and it can help prevent burnout, anxiety, and depression. In this subject, learners are taught how to identify fixed and growth mindsets, and best practices they can use to foster a growth mindset for themselves.
Languages: English, French, Spanish (North America)
Media Editing: The video module(s) in this subject are editable under our Content Studio offering unless otherwise indicated. For more information about Content Studio, contact your CSM.
Description: Our brains continue to develop and change, even as adults. With some time and effort, we can even change our thinking patterns about ourselves and our abilities, and how we approach learning and challenging situations. Having a growth mindset, instead of a fixed mindset, has some major benefits. It can help us grow personally and professionally, and it can help prevent burnout, anxiety, and depression. In this subject, learners are taught how to identify fixed and growth mindsets, and best practices they can use to foster a growth mindset for themselves.
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Having a Fixed Mindset versus a Growth Mindset
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According to psychologist Carol Dweck, from Stanford University, the two main ways people think about intelligence or ability are by having either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. In this topic, you’ll learn the differences between these two ways of thinking, and how having a growth mindset is beneficial.
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People with a fixed mindset believe that their talents and qualities are predetermined traits. They think that you are born with a specific amount of natural abilities, and that they can’t be improved or developed over time.
People with a fixed mindset avoid challenges. They are afraid of failure and appearing unintelligent.
People with a fixed mindset tend to give up easily because they believe they can’t improve. They believe that their failures are a direct result of not having the required natural abilities.
People with a growth mindset believe that their natural abilities can be developed in time with perseverance, learning, and effort. They believe that their natural abilities are just a starting point and that they have potential.
People with a growth mindset believe that they can learn from their mistakes and work on their flaws, as they are only temporary setbacks and can be improved.
People with a growth mindset believe that when something is difficult or challenging, it’s an opportunity for them to grow and develop new skills. They realize that their efforts have a direct impact on their success.
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How to Foster a Growth Mindset
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It would be very hard to go from having a fixed mindset to having a growth mindset overnight – it takes time and practice. In this topic, you’ll learn some best practices for developing a growth mindset, like being mindful of your inner voice and how you should approach mistakes, asking other people for feedback, and more.
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To foster a growth mindset, be mindful of your negative inner voice when you encounter a challenging problem or situation. Choose to think positively and shift the language you use.
To foster a growth mindset, don’t be afraid of challenges. View them as learning opportunities.
People with a growth mindset view failures or mistakes as learning opportunities and understand that they are a part of the learning process. Review your mistakes to find out what went wrong or didn’t work, and apply what you learned in the future.
To foster a growth mindset, avoid comparing or competing with others. Instead, use the success of others as a valuable lesson and as an inspiration.
People with a growth mindset understand that they’ll never stop learning. Be curious in unfamiliar situations and don’t be afraid to ask questions.
To foster a growth mindset, ask for feedback from others instead of seeking their approval. View criticism as positive and helpful since you can learn and grow from it.
