- The general theme of the book is right in the title “Mindset”. This book argues that the belief one has of theirself has a significant effect on how they live their life, and their future potential. She says there are two main mindsets. One being fixed, meaning that people believe that they are who they are and that can’t be changed. The other being a growth mindset. The fixed mindset severely limits one’s self, while the growth mindset can encourage you to practice/learn new things. The growth mindset loves adversity and criticism, because that is the basis for growth to occur.
- This book connected with this class because we are always looking to improve on things (find unmet needs and solve them), and this is exactly what occurs with the growth mindset. The growth mindset looks at problems and finds solutions to those so we better ourself, while the fixed mindset would just get mad at the problem.
- If I had to design an exercise for this class I would create a practice log that people have to fill out, where once a week they log in pratice time on a certain skill they want to improve. At the end of the week they would write how they “grew”, even if it was just from the slightest amount.
- I found this book to really resonate with me because I try to live by the growth mindset, but its not always easy. I realized in this book that instead of blaming other causes for my problems, the better mindset is to look at everything and ask what I can do to prevent that for next time.
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