Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

By: Carol S. Dweck

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement.

“Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes

“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

Critic reviews

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success

“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Everyone should read this book.”—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick

“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”—Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0

Slight Differences from Kindle Version

This book was much better than I had originally anticipated. I purchased it because I was looking to make positive changes in my life and it was on sale (so, less than $5). I purchased it and it “sat” on my Kindle shelf for a few years. However, I got the Audible version and I dove into the book headfirst. Despite having already listened to so many self-help and books on growth and development, there were so many great “nuggets” of information contained in this book. I managed to feel much better about myself and my position in life after reading it. As I type this, I’m 3 weeks away from starting my first semester of grad school at Gonzaga University!

Great book!

Carol S. Dweck makes you rethink your life and gives you the "tools" to improve yourself. I'm an educator myself and I believe that I learned important and helpful content from this book that I'll be applying to my teaching from now on. The narration by Bernadette Dune is outstanding! I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to be a better person and improved themselves and help others around them.

Enlightening

I downloaded this book to improve my approach to business, but what I took away from it was so much more!

It turns out that I have been applying the growth mindset with work and overcoming my challenges which is why year over year I have continued to grow and refine myself.

What I learned though was that I have not been applying the same principles to my personal and romantic relationships. My fixed mindset has continued to limit me from obtaining the meaningful relationships that I want because of my own self defeating thinking. I’m looking forward to transitioning my approach working through my challenges.

Thank you for opening my eyes and giving me this new insight and hope Carol!

Key for changing your perspective (or mindset)

Why this book matters?

This is one of my all time favorites, I liked so much that I purchase 5 or more copies and distributed to my family and friends. Why?

Because the concept here is FUNDAMENTAL it should be taught in our basic schools! The understanding of fixed vs. growth mindset is instrumental for you to achieve success in your life and persevere in the path of your goals and dreams.

Although, a few find the book repetitive as the concept it sounds fairly simple, I found the anedoctes in different perspectives (business, sports, relationships, parenting, teaching) very useful to fixate the concept and in my humble opinion the stories are compelling and enjoyable (maybe because I knew most of the sports and business personalities mentioned and used to exemplify the mindset in the book).

Also, when I listen to this audiobook during my walking exercise on my vacation back in November, I felt that I was doing an ""self-therapy", lot of thoughts came to my mind related to my youth, school time, my parents, my sister, my brother, my nephew and of course my relationship with my spouse.

So it was deep to me, it touched me and I figured that it was not only to me because a family member told me that he/she even cried (!!) when reading the book.

Unfortunately, a few family members haven't read yet, maybe because they sense it will touch them as well, as it is really therapeutic. And who already did therapy knows that is good, but a lot of times is hard and...hurts. Hurts, but heals, so be brave and enjoy the journey!

good!

I liked it but it was a bit repetitive. too many examples i think. other than that, very good!