Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

This book provided me with a useful roadmap of how to elminate my "fixed mindset" tendencies. The author provides helpful examples of growth vs. fixed mindset scenaries and demonstrates how damaging the traditional beliefs of "IQ" and "The Natural" can be to young and old people. Highly recommend!

This book is awesome. It is simple, easy to understand and is packed with jewels of information about how to live and understand ourselves so we can get past the bs and actually enjoy life. I highly recommend this book to the world. I feel it should be recommended reading for every human.

Carol Dweck suggests that individuals are either of fixed or of growth mindselt. The former views aptitudes and abilities as unchanging and the second as flexible and growing. She provides a check list that will help the reader determine what mindset is dominant. This is perhaps the book that Napolean Hill or the Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peal would have written had insights into neuroplasticity and mindset had been available to them.

This is a serious, practical, and thoroughly beneficial read. It is informative, well written, easy to follow and well read by Marguerite Gavin. It is well worth your time if you have an interest.

Dweck's material is very worth learning about. But could be more concise. Personally I find the narrator's voice is very irritating; one of those over-dramatic readings that sounds like someone in trained in Theatre.

A difficult audio book to get through, but worth persisting. There are some gems that are wonderful to behold, but these are scattered sparsely within the book that is overly repetitive. I think Dr Dweck could have expressed her ideas by using about one quarter of the words she uses here. The tense, somewhat flat, voice of the reader, makes the search for the gems in the book a difficult one.

Good subject matter and information, but the over reliance on examples to explain concepts makes this book repetitive and verbous. Would suggest buying an abridged version if it's available. Overall, the insights I've gained from it have been valuable, although getting to them was a painfully long process—kind of like going to the dentist for a root canal.

Way too much hype about how this book is revolutionary and was the first blah, blah, blah. I heard these theories before and felt insulted by the elementary presentation. I got so tired of the "infomercial" interjected in the actual "how to", I had to stop the CD on the first disc. It was very irritating! And, while I do like it when the author performs the preface, Ms. Dweck either needs to refrain from speaking this part or take performance lessons. No offense intended. Her performance is monotone and lackluster. I thought to myself as I was listening to this part, "If she's the narrator, I'm going to ask for my money back". While I was pleased with Marguerite Gavin's performance, the material was grating on my nerves by hopping between the subject matter and congratulating itself for being the first in this field of study.

Taken performance lessons or let someone else perform the preface. Also, take out all of the pumping up of the study. Maybe it would have a better flow.

Perky, clear, pleasant.

Irritation.

Mindset the new psychology of success is a breath of fresh air into the field of peak performance. It matches my anecdotal experience as a teacher and school counsellor. The paradigm of grow and fixed mindsets and the links to nero plasticity is exciting in its possibilities.

This book is intersting, but seems mostly to be a bunch of name dropping and repetition of those names. I would rather there was more "how to" than "Tiger Woods thought this or did that".

Very good description of fixed vs growth mindset and the advantages of being a growth mindset and how to avoid being a fixed mindset.