Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
I. General theme or argument: The framework is built on basic concepts of two different mindsets. The concept she tests through experiments argues weather or not both intelligence and personality are developed entities that can grow and improve rather than fixed. The author basis her theories from a discovery that in a strange way, children loved failure.
II. ENT 3003 connections and enhanced learnings: The book starts with stories about beliefs, and exploring where they came from through influences and ways the beliefs impact many of the major decisions we make in our lives. This is very similar to the exercises we practice in this course.
III. Designing a class exercise based on the book: Each chapter from this book ends with a lesson, based on the research and discussion. I think an exercise that would be neat for the class would be in the section about intellectual properties. The exercise would include a questionare testing the ability to identify the value of ones individual intellectual property by evaluating a worth to it from a business prespective. This would give students a chance to build awareness of intellectual values and how to protect them as well as market them.
IIII. Surprise and aha moment: I was surprised to learn that the IQ test wasn't actually invented to determine intelligence, instead it was designed to help kids in public schools get back on track when experiencing difficulties. It was interesting to me to understand the psychology behind success and how much young children liked failure.
This book seems to teach a lot of important lessons, including that one shouldn't simply give up because they feel that they started down their path at a disadvantage. Much of entrepreneurship seems to center around dealing with failure and using it to stimulate your own personal growth, this book seems to delve into that further and explain why this is necessary in order to be a successful entrepreneur.
ReplyDeleteHi Natali, very interesting post! The psychological principles discussed in the book sound very interesting. I read How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. While your book seems very technical and informative, my book included more general life and business tips, as well as a good amount of comedy. By the way, I think the exercise you came up with sounds very interesting and useful.
ReplyDeleteHi Natalie! I also read this book, as you saw in my post. Thank you for your comment. I was also surprised about the IQ test! I enjoyed how she incorporated it as an example as how so many of us have come to use numbers on paper to judge a person. I also enjoyed hearing about the studies on children, and how some children would want to take the hard puzzles home or showed a distinct thirst for a challenge. Reminded of me as a child, from the stories my parents tell anyway!
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