Sociologist Benjamin Barber said ‘I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.’ What do you think he means by this statement?
It is not a good idea to classify people in terms of their natural abilities or strengths and weaknesses.
What initially caused Carol Dweck to become interested in ‘mindsets’?
At Yale where she started her career, she studied the motivation of animals and the effects of ‘learned helplessness’.
Dweck conducted a study with Blackwell and Trzesniewski. Which of the following is NOT one of the results of this study?
Students with a fixed mindset were inspired by the achievement of other students.
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