27A- Reading Reflection 3

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

     1.  The theme of the book is that your mindset can impact the way you react and grow in different situations. People with a fixed mindset believe that they can either do something or not because of their talent. People with a growth mindset believe that through hard work and practice anything is possible. The author believes that a person’s mindset and how they view their self affects the way they lead their life. 

     2.  The book connected with what we are learning in ENT 3003 by teaching our brains how to succeed. The learning process and the failures of our early assignments is teaching us how to grow through the process of evaluation and change. With our product idea and in establishing and promoting the products through our elevator pitches and interviews with potential customers, then taking the suggestions of others and adapting what we thought was a good idea. Through this process we are embracing the growth mindset belief. 

     3.  In considering mindset, I would design an exercise for the class in which we focused on businesses or products that failed versus ones that were successful. With the growth mindset in learning what others did that did not work, could be more beneficial than learning about products that did. 

    4.  The biggest surprise to me after reading this book was in realizing that most people have a fixed mindset, believing that talent is more important than anything. If we focus on learning from our failures and embracing them as a part of the growth process, we can become more successful and accept future failures more gracefully. It is within each person to decide whether to be positive or negative throughout their life. Through positive living, we can lead by example, teaching others that their struggles and failures do not define them but how they overcome, learn, and move past them is what os important.