Definition: The belief that your basic qualities can be cultivated through effort, strategy and help from others.
Insight: Everyone can change and grow.
Insight: Stretching for improvement and sticking to it, especially when things are not going well is one of the signs of a growth mindset.
Insight: Being able to identify personal strengths and weaknesses is a sign of a growth mindset.
Insight: A fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you will be judged, a growth mindset is concerned with improving.
Insight: People with a growth mindset seek information that will stretch their knowledge.
Insight: Failure is viewed as a learning experience.
Insight: Fixed mindset is only concerned with the outcome, growth mindset values the experience.
Insight: A growth mindset is not only about effort, or praising efforts. For children it is important to learn that trying new strategies when things are not working is also part of the growth journey.
Insight: Growth mindset is not telling children that they can do anything.
Principle: Hard work, trying new strategies, seeking feedback.
Principle: Avoid praising effort that is not there.
