Mindset_ How You Can Fulfill Your Potential

taking charge of, 1, 2, 3
Summitt, Pat, 1, 2
Sunbeam-Oster company, 1, 2
Surowiecki, James, 1

T


talent

and ability/accomplishments, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and art, 1
business and leadership issues, 1
and fixed mindsets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and growth mindsets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and Jordan, Michael, 1
and music, 1, 2
praise for, 1
and sports, 1
teachers. See also Collins, Marva; DeLay, Dorothy
and attitudes of students, 1
Escalante, Jaime, 1
Esquith, Rafe, 1, 2, 3
and failure, messages about, 1
and fixed mindsets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and growth mindsets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and hard work, 1
and mindset workshop, 1, 2
and nurturing atmosphere, 1
questionnaire, 1
Semyonova, Marina, 1
and standards in schools, 1, 2, 3
and talent, 1, 2, 3
and their legacies, 1
and unmotivated students, 1
tests
and fixed mindsets, 1, 2
IQ test, 1, 2, 3, 4
and teachers, 1
Tharp, Twyla, 1

Thomas, Daryl, 1, 2, 3
Thomas, Isiah, 1
Tillis, Iciss, 1
Time (magazine), 1
toddlers’ mindsets, 1
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 1
Tolstoy, 1
Torres, Jose, 1
Tyson, Mike, 1

U


UCLA basketball team, 1
University of Hong Kong English classes, 1, 2

V


VandeWalle, Don, 1

W


Walton, Bill, 1
Washington Post, The, 1, 2
Welch, Jack, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wetzler, Scott, 1
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (Gerstner), 1
Wie, Michelle, 1
Wile, Daniel, 1
willpower, and fixed growth mindsets, 1
Wills, Maury, 1
Winfrey, Oprah, 1
Winner, Ellen, 1
Wolfe, Tom, Right Stuff, The, 1
women

and business/leadership, 1

and idea of effortless perfection, 1
and labels, 1, 2
and math/science achievement, 1
and others’ evaluations, 1
Women, The (Luce), 1
Wonder, Stevie, 1
Wood, Robert, 1, 2, 3
Wooden, John, 1, 2, 3, 4
Woods, Tiger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
World Champions (winners of World Series), 1
Wortman, Paul, 1
Wurtzel, Alan, 1

X


Xerox company, 1, 2

Y


Yeager, Chuck, 1

About the Author



Carol Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the
fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology. She has
been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University
and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford
University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her
scholarly book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality and
Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship.
Her work has been featured in such publications as the New Yorker, Time, New
York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe. She lives with her husband in
Palo Alto, California.

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