Status: Tags: Links: Mindset
Fixed Mindset
Qualities
Personal
- Focus on the outcome
- Try to prove that they are talented
- They view effort as a bad thing, as it shows inefficiency
Relational
- Desire to be the best
- Want people to praise them
- Feel the need to be better than others to feel successful
- Not be willing to work on the problems that arise, and will either think it relationships were meant to be or blame the other person
- Certain character problems cannot be solved
Benefits
- Allows a person to feel happy in their current scenario, without a desire to improve
Downsides
- A single failure can negatively define them
- Discourages effort and results in worse learning strategies
- Views other people as judges instead of allies
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