How Your Beliefs Can Sabotage Your Behavior

In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence,  their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don't necessarily think everyone's the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.

What is a fixed mindset??

Have you ever found yourself feeling unmotivated because you believe that you simply can’t do something? In these moments, we think that failure is inevitable and, because of our attitude towards the task at hand, we generally do end up failing.

We have all been in this frame of mind at least once in our lives. The fear of failure is usually the culprit when it comes to our lack of success.

In this article, we will be discussing what is meant by the term ‘fixed mindset.’ More so, we will mention a few real-life examples and how you can go about changing this mindset.  Read more