The Growth Mindset

The fixed mindset is so very tempting. It seems to promise children a lifetime of worth, success and admiration just for sitting there and being who they are. When anyone in the family slips into fixed mindset thinking, he delights in catching them. He loves the idea that he's inherently special, case-closed. Yet as the value system in the family shifts toward the growth mindset, he wants to be a player. That's why it can take a lot of work to make the growth mindset flourish.