1) For this Reading Reflection I decided to read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck. It was a very interesting read because I am in a personality psychology course this summer as well so it was very cool to see her thoughts on personality and how that will influence success. One of the general themes of her book is the view you adopt of yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. She goes into more detail about the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one that believe that you qualities are carved into stone and you are who you are. A growth mindset believes that your basic qualities are ones that you can cultivate and grow through effort overtime.
2) This book by Carol Dweck expanded my insight about our own minds in a way that positively affected and will enhance what I have learned in ENT3003. The whole message behind Carol Dweck's book is that a growing mindset is a beneficial one because you are constantly willing to learn new things and try to better yourself. It made me realize that I have a growth mindset because I am always looking to increase my knowledge about the world around me and that includes everyone in it. She focuses on the desire to confront challenges and keep working with a growth mindset and that is exactly what an entrepreneur has to do all of the time. If you aren't getting the results you want a growth mindset person will persevere and continue until they have found the right solution to the problem. A fixed mindset person would typically give up and become frustrated to the point where they are over it and don't want to continue.
3) If I were to create an exercise for the class based off this book I would create a questionnaire that everyone would take to determine which mindset they may have. It would be similar to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in the way that you identify as one or the other but that doesn't mean you can't fall towards the middle. This questionnaire will be able to give results to the class about their personality and who they view themselves as.
4) I was shocked to find out that your mindset is the view you adopt of yourself and these can be seen as early as four years old. It was crazy to me to think that your personality can begin to start forming as early as the age of four. In a later study Carol Dweck researched students at the University of Hong Kong where everything is spoken in english. Some students are more proficient than others but when given the chance at a free class to improve their english skills the fixed mindset set students passed up the opportunity. Where as the fixed mindset students jumped at the chance to increase their proficiency in the language. If an opportunity was presented to me for a free class to increase my knowledge I would not hesitate to take the opportunity.
This book seems very interesting and intriguing just by the way you answered the assigned questions. Wish I could go back and read this book instead. I also find it interesting that mindset is adopted and can be seen at only four years old. That seems so young, yet makes sense at the same time because that seems to be when children start showing the most personality. Great job!
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