Growth Mindset
Image Information: Growth mindset compared to fixed mindset. Link: Flickr The above image sends a very distinct message about the "growth mindset," especially as discussed by Dr. Carol Dweck. The picture provides two halves of the brain. One half of the brain, cultivated by the "growth mindset," displays the colors of the rainbow in a representation of freedom, creativity, and ingenuity. The other half of the brain, however, represents the "fixed mindset." The tones of grey and lack of color depict a brain void of excitement and growth. Dweck's describes the growth mindset as praising the process of learning, as opposed to intelligence itself. In one example she provides, students that failed in an academic exercise were greeted with the phrase "not yet." This refers to frame of thought in which the results are not as emphasized as the means. Instead of teaching students a fixed mindset, where simply the outcome is judged, the learn...