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| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | 
| Author: Carol Dweck
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 5668
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345472322
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780345472328
ASIN: 0345472322
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset.
Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.
“If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”
–Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start and the blog How to Change the World
"Highly recommended . . . an essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”
–Library Journal (starred review)
“A serious, practical book. Dweck’s overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome.”
–Publishers Weekly
“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life.”
–Robert J. Sternberg, author of Teaching for Successful Intelligence
“A wonderfully elegant idea . . . It is a great book.”
–Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of Delivered from Distraction
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 Open Your Mind November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a stimulating book that reminds the reader that openness to learning, drive and hard work are more likely to result in success in life than is talent. My hesitancy in providing a higher rating is that the research supporting the concepts is referenced rather than reported in sufficient detail to enable independent assessment.
 A Lot More than a New Psychology of Success November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The subtitle stinks. It makes the reader think that the substance of the book is merely a different approach to positive thinking. NOT SO! Instead, this is a great book. Here's why. It answers two very important questions--and it does so from a very solid research basis: why is that some extremely bright people fail to achieve? and why is it that some people who seem only to be ordinary, achieve greatly?
Furthermore, it challenges the deeply and widely held cultural beliefs about human intelligence--the dogma that intelligence (or IQ) is innate and hardwired. Old dogma dies hard. Once concepts are deeply embedded, a superstructure of assumptions and ideas grows around it. Rejecting a dogma means that many ideas are now questionable, and . . . as a result a close read of a book or thoughtful analysis of a new and complex idea is impossible. As an acquaintance of mine said about these ideas: "I don't believe it. I can't believe it. Everything I've ever learned about intelligence and achievement would go out the window." He tuned out. It was a losing battle I chose not to fight.
What Carol really needs to say--but you can't do it in a book--is that we have profoundly imbibed a cultural attitude that is so wrongheaded, it impacts everything we think about intelligence and achievement. And the failure to look seriously at these ideas is Nutso!
There's another way to get at the same issue: Why is it that so many Asians do so well in college and in business? Is it that they're Asian? Nahhhh. It's just that they never heard that "the cream rises to the top." That wasn't permitted. Instead, it's if you got a B instead of an A on that test, why didn't you work harder? The Asian mindset is profound--and it results in high achievement. The middle class American mindset that you've only got so much ability is deeply held--and often results in mediocre achievement.
After our middle daughter graduated from a top university, she was sitting on the front stoop of our home, and a friend who hadn't achieved asked what her father would have done if she hadn't graduated. Without missing a beat, she responded with a smile: "He would have murdered me!"
That's Carol Dweck's well-researched thesis: Teach your kids and yourself to work smart and keep learning, while you're working hard...and don't stop. It's the key, ultimately, to competitive advantage and American success in a global economy.
Your Tags: intelligence, personal growth, personal transformation, achievment
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MUST READ October 22, 2008
THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ, IT CERTAINLY WILL BRING POSITIVE CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE AND GIVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN MIND.
MINDSET CREATES A NEW SKILLSET FOR SUCCEEDING October 8, 2008
We've always used the phrases "open-minded" and "closed-minded," but after reading this book, you will use them more discriminantly...
The author (Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.) conducted extensive research which proves that the view we adoopt of ourselves profoundly affects the way that we lead our lives. It also reveals that your mindset can determine whether you become the person you want to be, and whether you accomplish what you are truly capable of.
Her conclusion is that we all have a fixed (or closed) mindset, which is characterized by the belief that your qualities are carved in stone; or a growth (open) mindset, which is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things that you can cultivate through your efforts and influenced by our early development.
After quickly establishing her premise, she uses the remainder of the book to illustrate how people with fixed mindsets view things that happen to them as a direct measure of their competence and worth, and those with a growth mindset don't take situations personally, but view them as a learning oppportunity to get better and grow as a result.
She also includes stories which illsutrate how athletes such as Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, Jackie-Joyner Kersee, and Marshall Faulk, used a growth mindset to achieve their great athletic accomplishments, in addition to she delving deep into corporate culture to unveil the perils and pervasiveness of the fixed mindset which toppled companies such as Enron, IBM, and Chrysler.
It then moves into relationships, parenting, and general changes in life. Mindset is that rare kind of book you that you can read for a short period of time and instantly extract lessons from to immediately apply to use in your every endeavor. It will change the way you look at things, how people look at you, and change your life (for the better) in the process.
 Good book, small primitive print July 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had read some parts of the book and decided to own a copy. The price is not cheap but when I received the copy, it looks like everything is shrunk. The paper is very low grade and dark.
Go for the hardcover or CD if you want to own one!!!!
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