Psychologists are studying how different workplace, school and social situations can trigger a growth or fixed mind-set.
But the reality is that mind-set probably exists on a continuum, and we all have some combination of growth and fixed mind-sets. As a result, psychologists are studying how our environment — such as working for a goal-oriented boss or having a social media network of high-achievers — can trigger a growth or fixed mind-set in different situations.
“We’ve learned that virtually everybody has both mind-sets, but they have different defaults,” Dweck said in an interview. “Even when people are usually in more of a growth mind-set, there are situations that can trigger people into a fixed mind-set, where they start saying, ‘Maybe I just don’t have what it takes.’”Many people in today’s millennial workforce grew up before growth mind-set teaching took hold in the educational system.
Another experiment compared the brains of people who have growth mind-sets with those who have fixed mind-sets as they were given trivia tests. Thethat after missing a question, people with a growth mind-set were more attentive to the correct answer, while those with fixed mind-sets appeared less interested in learning the right answer and instead showed an emotional response to getting the question wrong.
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