Believe that your talents are immutable and are eager to prove your abilities over and over again

Your basic abilities can be cultivated through your efforts

This mode of thinking allows people to thrive even when they encounter major challenges in life.

Believe that efforts and risks expose one's own shortcomings and prove that one is not capable enough to complete something

Fear of challenges and disdain for effort

Hope to ensure their own success and believe that smart people should always be successful

Believe that the key to success is learning, and will seize learning opportunities

Success means expanding your capabilities and becoming smarter and smarter

Don’t want to expose your own shortcomings and refuse opportunities to learn

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People with a growth mindset

People with a growth mindset don’t just seek challenges, they grow from them

The greater the challenge, the greater their room for growth

Sometimes, people with a growth mindset will achieve things that would otherwise be impossible by greatly improving their abilities.

People with a growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to blossom.

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For some people with a fixed mindset, success is not enough. It must be close to perfection, and it must be perfect from the beginning.

For those with a growth mindset, being smart is not about immediate perfection, but about long-term learning: facing challenges head-on and making progress.

When people with a fixed mindset choose success over growth, they want to prove that they are special or even superior to others.

If you succeed, you are better than others; you can insult them and make them grovel to you. In a fixed mindset, this can easily be mistaken for self-esteem

understanding of failure

When doing the same thing, A succeeds and others fail. For people with a fixed mindset, it means they have failed.

In a fixed mindset, setbacks can be extremely traumatic

How people with a fixed mindset cope with setbacks and failures

People with a fixed mindset are more likely to be depressed

Many people with a growth mindset also feel very miserable

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People with a growth mindset

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Looking back, do you say "I could have" or "I put in all the effort for the things I value most"

If you want something badly and you have a chance to get it, go for it

It discourages effort and ruins learning strategies

Let others be our judges rather than our companions

Wow, you got 90 points in the exam, that’s great, you’re so smart!

Success means being smart, not being successful means being defective (not smart)

Wow, you got 90 points in the exam, you must have worked very hard!

Difficulty means "going the extra mile", not failure

This is teaching them a fixed mindset

On the contrary, it makes the other party full of fear and doubt - because encountering difficulties is a challenge and doubt to one's "talent"

Turning imperfection into a shameful thing

Telling children they are smart only makes them feel stupid, doing stupid things but still claiming to be smart.

prevent people from achieving

Make people lack a sense of belonging

It messes with people's minds and makes people secretly worry that their performance will validate the stereotype.

When you are labeled as positive, you are afraid of losing it

When you are unfortunately labeled with a negative label, you fear that you are exactly what the label says

Since they were young, they have heard others praise them, so they have learned to trust what others say about themselves.

Once someone gives a negative review, they will subconsciously believe that the negative review will have great attack power on them.

Do not think that you are special or born to win, but work hard to stay focused and improve your abilities under pressure.

Believe that success comes from doing things to the best of your ability, from learning and self-improvement

Even if they don't win, they will be proud of their efforts

Take control of your own journey to success and maintenance of success

Know what you want and know how to get what you want

You have no control over your abilities and motivation

Blame external factors and protect themselves by complaining and blaming others

They must constantly confirm that they belong to the level of excellence, and the company is the platform for them to demonstrate their excellence.

They only care about their "personal greatness" and want to be the only important person in the company. They will feel superior when comparing themselves to those around them.

Need to prove and demonstrate their superiority and talent, and will use their subordinates to prove this instead of promoting the development of their subordinates

Put yourself before the interests of the company

Ignore subordinates’ feelings and needs

The company’s most capable employees become victims because they pose a huge threat to their fixed-mindset bosses

Their employees eventually lost their drive

Their employees worry about how others view them: who is stupid and who is smart

Don’t talk about privileges, focus on the process of leading the company’s struggle

A growth mindset manager is a guide, not a judge

Increase productivity through employee coaching, not intimidation

When people believe too much in a gifted leader or genius (everyone thinks he is great and he will definitely succeed in doing things)

When a group becomes obsessed with its own sense of superiority

When fixed-mindset leaders are keen to punish dissenters (perhaps people still hold critical opinions but won’t speak out)

In order to gain recognition from leaders, employees should stand on the same page as leaders

members of a group believe they have special gifts and powers

Don’t reward employees for a great idea or smart behavior

Reward employees because they take initiative, solve problems, strive to learn new skills, are not afraid of setbacks, and accept criticism.

You can even reward them for doing their job well without frequent rewards

Will determine whether employees "have talent"

We call it "Genius Culture"

Believe that employees can grow and improve through hard work and the right strategies and guidance

We call this “Development Culture”

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Problems

Everything can be nurtured, including you, your partner, and your relationship—all can grow and change

Either blame yourself for your unchangeable personality or blame your partner

And the option of imposing responsibility on others is even more tempting

Because they felt rejected and the breakup labeled them negatively

Because once they forgive their partner and their partner is the righteous party, they will have to bear more faults

Who is smarter, more talented, more lovable

More agree with stereotypes, for example, female drivers have poor skills

They may be great, charming, and funny, but after interacting with them, you feel devalued.

They base their self-esteem on their own superiority

Care about other people's evaluations, easily doubt yourself and feel anxious

Worry that you will make mistakes in social interactions

Treat social situations as a challenge and proactively welcome opportunities to meet new people, even if you feel anxious

What parents say will tell their children "how to see themselves"

Child: "Who painted such an ugly painting?"

His mother immediately corrected him and said: "This painting is so beautiful, but you say it is ugly. This is not good."

The teacher said: "You don't need to draw beautiful paintings, as long as you like, you can draw ugly paintings."

Children like to be praised. Praise can really cheer them up and bring them a special sense of joy.

But this is short-lived. Once they encounter difficult problems, their self-confidence and enthusiasm will disappear.

Praise children for their efforts towards growth

Praise them for their achievements through their own practice, learning, perseverance and effective learning strategies

Example sentences

If a child tries hard but does not succeed

Correct demonstration: "Wow, I guess this question was too easy for you, and I'm sorry for wasting your time. Let's do some questions that you can actually learn from!"

Don’t tell your children you are the best against their will

Don't blame others and external factors - for example, this teacher is too unqualified

Don't teach him not to belittle the matter itself - for example, reassure him that the game is not important.

Don't tell him he's great and will definitely win next time - ability doesn't automatically make you successful

Tell your child the truth, teach him how to learn from failure, and tell him that he needs to put in all his efforts for future success.

Example

Help your child make up for something, create a better situation, or do a job better

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Sometimes children label themselves

Don't judge, teach.

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Children with a growth mindset

Children pass on the information they receive

For example, if a parent scolds a child for crying, the child learns that the child who cries should be judged and punished.

When judging and punishing children

Believes that by lowering standards, students can experience success, increase their self-confidence, and improve their achievement

Lowering standards will only produce undereducated students who can only do simple tasks and think too highly of themselves.

Conversely, raising standards without teaching them how to meet them will set up less motivated students to fail.

Creates a trusting, judgment-free learning atmosphere

Set high standards, provide challenges and provide training

Students who are unmotivated

Winning can push you into a fixed mindset: "I can win because I have talent. Therefore, I can definitely keep winning."

Call some of the things they like about them a “growth mindset.”

Believes that a growth mindset is all about hard work, especially praising others for their efforts

A growth mindset is the equivalent of telling children they can do anything

to be reflected through behavior

There are very simple actions that could make things better, but they won't do them

Fixed mindset: When things don’t go well, they feel powerless

Process the information you receive: Make an intense evaluation of each message

They are equally sensitive to positive and negative information

Focus more on what this information can bring about in terms of learning and constructive behavior: What can I learn from this? What can I do to improve? What can I do to make my partner do better?

Change is not difficult: learning a growth mindset can inspire people to face challenges and persevere

Change is difficult: Fixed thinking patterns conform to people’s psychological needs, allow people to gain self-esteem, and gain the love and respect of others.

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effective practices

Awareness of privilege: I deserve it all

Denial of reality: My life is perfect

Create an environment with a growth mindset

Sometimes for kids, the problem isn’t too little effort, but too much, and in the wrong places.

To help the child reorient himself, let the child start to enjoy what he does (don’t just focus on test scores)

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For example, if you lose weight and achieve your goal of losing 20 pounds, you will stop exercising.

Openly accept that you have a fixed mindset and don’t be ashamed of it

Identify what triggers your fixed mindset

For example, when facing huge challenges, when you are in trouble, when you face failure, when you meet better people

Give a name to your fixed mindset personality

Use a growth mindset to educate your fixed mindset personality

Let him accept challenges, never give up, bounce back after setbacks, and help and support others to grow