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Growth Mindset
Flashcards
Term | Definition |
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1. The brain and Growth Mindset | 2. Effort and perseverance create intelligence, skill, and talent |
1. The brain and Fixed Mindset | 2. Intelligence, skill, and talent are things you are born with |
1. The layers of personal identity | 2. Self-image, behavior, relationships, groups |
1. The attribution theory | 2. Attempting to understand the behavior of others by attributing feelings, beliefs, and intentions to them |
1. Intrinsic motivation | 2. Performing an action because you enjoy or are interested in the activity |
1. Extrinsic motivation | 2. Performing an action to obtain external rewards, or to avoid a negative consequence |
1. Positive self-talk | 2. I can learn to write better by practicing and spending time at it |
1. Negative self-talk | 2. I have never been good at math |
1. The silver lining of failure | 2. Failures are temporary setbacks that I can learn and grow from |
1. Effort leading to success | 2. Consistent effort (perseverance) promotes a growth mindset, which leads to success |
1. The importance of critical thinking skills | 2. Leads to self-discipline and self-corrective thinking, which in turn promotes a growth mindset |
1. Developing leadership skills | 2. No one is a born leader. Growth mindset states that everyone can develop leadership skills and benefit from using them |
1. Intelligence in relation to Growth Mindset | 2. Intelligence can be developed and increased with effort. You are not born with a "fixed" amount |
1. Color therapy in relation to Growth Mindset | 2. Coloring has intellectual benefits. It utilizes areas of the brain that enhance focus and concentration |
1. The importance of keeping your brain and mind healthy | 2. Your brain is like a muscle that you exercise -- it can only "grow" when you challenge it. Feed your brain as you would feed your body -- "garbage in, garbage out" |
1. Famous failures and their journeys | 2. Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison |
1. Changing a mindset from fixed to growth | 2. Challenging your brain and putting forth effort is one key to unlocking your potential and gaining a growth mindset |
1. Left brain hemisphere | 2. Reasoning, logic, language, mathematics |
1. Right brain hemisphere | 2. Imagination, creativity, music, artistic pursuits |
1. Techniques to build confidence | 2. "You must have put a lot of effort into that work." |
1. The pitfalls of a fixed mindset | 2. Tendency not to work (give effort) for things. Belief that success comes without effort |
1. Optimism leading to success | 2. The idea of "yet". I haven't achieved that -- yet. Belief that negative outcomes or failures are just opportunities to learn from -- finding a way to get through things and never finding a reason to stop trying |