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| Carol Dweck's Video |
The video is about a group of 9 and 10 year old kids in America being given puzzles to do that started off easy. Every time a student completed a puzzle they were either praised on their intelligence or on the effort they made. After the children are given much harder puzzles that they might not be able to solve, according to the video some of their confidence' immediately dropped and they started thinking never mind i'm not good at this after all where as other kids continued working on the harder problem. After all of the student's were asked if they wanted to go back to the easy ones or try to keep going on the harder ones. Carol Dweck found that the kids who had been praised by being told they were intelligent at the beginning really wanted to go back and continue working on the easy puzzles when they had been told they were smart, which is an example of a fixed mindset. Where as the children who had been praised for effort leaned towards continuing doing the harder tasks, this is an example of showing a growth mindset. People with a Growth Mindset believe that intelligence can always be worked on, it's not set in stone. They feel smart just when they're working really hard on something difficult and they can progress.
Carol Dweck then goes on to say that she believes that people are really sensitive to whats going on around them, what other people value and what they're being judged on. I definitely agree with the research in this video, I know myself I can definitely have a fixed or a growth mindset around different people, because I'm aware of what they may expect of me already or I don't want to feel inferior in front of certain people but it's also definitely true that trying something difficult over something you find easy is always the better option as you can't improve without being challenged.
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