Contents

• The mindsets
  • Why Do People Differ?
  • What Does All This mean for You? The Two Mindsets
  • A View from the Two Mindsets
  • So, What’s New?
  • Self-Insight – Who Has Accurate Views of Their Assets and Limitations?
  • What’s in Store
• Inside the Mindsets
  • Is Success About Learning– Or Proving You’re Smart?
  • Mindsets Change the Meaning of Failure
  • Mindsets Change the Meaning of Effort
  • Questions and Answers
• The Truth About Ability and Accomplishment
  • Mindset and school Achievement
  • Is Artistic Ability a Gift?
  • The Danger of Praise and Positive Labels
  • Negative Labels and How They Work
• Sports – The Mindset of a Champion
  • The Idea of the Natural
  • “Character”
  • What is Success?
  • What is Failure?
  • Taking Charge of Success
  • What Does it Mean to Be a Star?
  • Hearing the Mindsets
• Business – Mindset and Leadership
  • Enron and the Talent Mindset
  • Organizations that Grow
  • A Study of Mindset and Management Decisions
  • Leadership and the Fixed Mindset
  • Fixed-Mindset Leaders in Action
  • Growth-Mindset Leaders in Action
  • A Study of group Processes
  • Groupthink Versus We Think
  • The Praised Generation Hits the Workforce
  • Are Negotiators Born or Made?
  • Corporate Training – Are Managers Born or Made?
  • Area Leaders Born or Made?
  • Organizational Mindsets
• Relationships – Mindsets in Love (or Not)
  • Relationships are Different
  • Mindsets Falling in Love
  • The Partner as Enemy
  • Competition – Who’s the Greatest?
  • Developing in Relationships
  • Friendship
  • Shyness
  • Bullies and Victims – Revenge Revisited
• Parents, Teachers, and Coaches – Where do Mindsets Come From?
  • Parents (and Teachers) – Messages About Success and Failure
  • Teachers (and Parents) – What Makes a Great Teacher (or Parent)?
  • Coaches – Winning Through Mindset
  • False Growth Mindset
  • Our Legacy
• Changing Mindsets
  • The Nature of Change
  • The Mindset Lectures
  • A Mindset Workshop
  • Brainology
  • More About Change
  • Opening Yourself Up to Growth
  • People Who Don’t Want to Change
  • Changing Your Child’s Mindset
  • Mindset and Willpower
  • Maintaining Change
  • The Journey to a (True) Growth Mindset
  • Learn and Help Learn
  • The Road Ahead
• Notes
• Recommended Books