27a (Carol Dweck)

Mindset Carol Dweck

1.This books main focus was to no surprise about people's Mindset. More specifically the Mindset if successful people. Dweck talks about the people who keep trying, keo practicing and eventually become a great success. The mindset she attributes to this kind of person is a "growth mindset". Dweck is fascinated by how impactful instilling the phrase "not yet", into struggling children can help with testing, learning, and overall success.She brings up examples of the teacher who brought a school from the bottom of the performance in their district to one of the best in the city testing wise. 

2. I think this book relates well to the class because we focus a lot on changing our view of failure. It's important as an entrepreneur to embrace failure and learn how to do better from it. Someone with a fixed mindset would give up being an entrepreneur very quickly.

3. I think a great exercise for this class would be a take home project. It would be centered around improving in our worst subject area with the same "not yet"approach to not achieving success that Dweck talks about.

4. The biggest surprise for me was just how much this worked with the young students in New York. Bringing them from below average to one of the best in their county was crazy. I've had teachers that talked about this mindset before but I never took it so seriously. I think it's something easy that should be instilled in kids across the country.