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Growth Mindset - Carol Dweck

Updated on: Jun 12, 2025

A growth mindset and a fixed mindset, as described by Carol Dweck, are two fundamentally different approaches to personal and professional development. A growth mindset promotes the belief that skills can be improved through effort and learning, which is crucial for entrepreneurs as it encourages them to take on challenges and learn from mistakes. In contrast, people with a fixed mindset believe that their skills are static, which often leads to avoidance attitudes and limits the potential for growth and innovation.

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Last updated on 6/12/2025.

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Raul Angulo

2 days agoReply
This is a brilliant overview on how the winner in Entrepreneurship is not exactly the smarter one; although a factor is intelligence, it is the mindset of managing and starting a business via startup or overall, that matters most. The selfish who fight for their own ego always pummel when compared to the selfless who does not build for themselves, but for others. The selfless via the growth mindset are the ones who accept change, challenges, and criticism to become the best and build their companies to the max, while the fixed mindsets build to look impressive, rather they have a hollow business of which does not grow them or their community, as they are fixed on their own vision, not a unity of multiple. I could ramble on and on, but it is not always what you say that truly determines success, rather, what you do; execute, don’t stall.

Rabea Baierl

4/30/2026Reply
Danke für das teilen der Grafik! Man sieht sofort,wo man sich oft selbst im Weg steht. Als Ergänzung zur Literatur-Frage: Das Standardwerk von Carol Dweck, "Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential.(Auf Deutsch: Selbstbild.) ISBN: 978-3492311229 ist absolut empfehlenswert. Es erklärt super,warum das "Noch nicht" so viel Kraft hat und wie wir unsere Fähigkeiten wie ein Muskel trainieren können. Herzlichst Rabea

Assanali Tynshimov

4/7/2026Reply
I liked how the article briefly and clearly explained how we can become better and learn more!

Roman Pernack

12/6/2024Reply
Über das Schaubild kann man super den Gegensatz dieser beiden Mindsets sofort erfassen - Danke dafür!

Sina Bayer

12/6/2024Reply
Super wäre, wenn es noch eine Literaturempfehlung dazu gibt. Vor allem eine Quelle (Literatur), die ihr als wertvoll zu diesem Thema empfunden habt. Also nicht nur das Handbuch Psychologie. Ich fande folgendes ganz hilfreich bze. ergänzend zu dem Thema: Dweck, Carol S. (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. New York, NY: Random House. ISBN 1400062756. OCLC 58546262. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
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