1. For this assignment I chose to read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck. The general theme of this book was describing two different types of mindsets and how they affect your success in life. The two types of mindsets were a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. A fixed mindset believes that you have predetermined abilities talents. A growth mindset on the other hand believes that these are not fixed and you can grow and better them. Fixed mindsets tend to avoid any new challenges and are also very easy to give up if they fail at something. Growth mindsets tend to be very persistent with things and does not give up easily. The book goes on to describe how these mindsets impact the our ways of thinking that eventually will lead to our future success or failure.
2. I think the book connected very well with what we are learning in this class. I think this class is trying to teach us to have the growth mindset that this book is talking about. I also believe that after reading this book, it is very important for us to strive to have that growth mindset if we want to be successful at all with these new business ideas that we come up with in this class. These ideas will be very hard to get going and eventually become successful so we have to persistent and can't give up when it becomes hard.
3. The exercise that I would design for this class based on this book would involve the two mindsets. I would ask the students of this class which mindset they think they've grown up with, and which mindset they think this class is trying to teach them. I also would ask why they think this class is trying ti teach them that specific mindset and why it may be helpful in their future career.
4. When reading this book, I really did not know what it was going to be about because I had never heard of it or thought about reading a book like this before. So, my biggest aha moment was when I reading it and learning what the two mindsets were. I kind of realized what she was talking about and thought to myself that it makes a lot of sense.
Mindset is super important. As you indicated through your read of The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, having a fixed mindset can really set you back from achievement. Adapting your mind to a growth mindset ultimately will ensure your ability to progress through life’s challenges. As an entrepreneur everything is new. Even if you have had a wealth of prior experiences in other fields of business, or the corporate sector you must move from thinking you know it all and adapt to new influxes of information gathering. Most struggle in this area. A growth mindset would be key.
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