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1. GROWTH MINDSET
CONCEPTS AND
APPLICATIONS
Anish Gopal Vaidya

2. HOW MUCH DO YOU
AGREE?
• “You can learn new things, but you can’t
really change your basic intelligence”
• Strongly disagree
• Disagree
• Somewhat disagree
• Somewhat agree
• Agree
• Strongly agree

3. VIDEO
• https://mindsetkit.org/topics/about-growth-mindset/what-is-growth-
mindset

4. WHAT IS A GROWTH MINDSET?
Growth Mindset Beliefs Fixed Mindset Beliefs
Intelligence can be developed Intelligence is a fixed trait
Intelligence is like a muscle. If you
put in effort and challenge
yourself, you will get smarter
It is like the color of your eyes,
which cannot be changed

5. FIXED MINDSET
RESPONSES
• Goals
• Look Smart
• Hide how dumb you are
• If intelligence is something fixed, you want to show that
you have it
• Avoid asking questions that they don’t understand
• To preserve the image that they are smart
• Effort
• View effort negatively
• “If I have to try, I must not be very smart at this.”
• Response to Challenge or Setback
• Give up
• Setback means they are not smart

6. GROWTH
MINDSET
RESPONSES
• Goals
• Learn
• If you think intelligence is something
you develop, the way you develop is by
learning new things
• Students with growth mindset ask
questions because that’s how they
learn
• Effort
• It is the way that you learn or get
smarter
• Response to Challenge or setback
• Like challenges
• They are the opportunity to learn and
develop intelligence
• Work harder

7. HOW DOES IT
WORK?
• Neuroplasticity of the Brain
• When you put effort on something, it
increases the connections in the brain
• Research on London taxi drivers

8. BENEFITS OF GROWTH MINDSET
•Better Performance over time
•Since you are more willing to put in
effort
•Already explained before

9. STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH
MINDSET
https://redfworkshop.org/wp-
content/uploads/2017/10/Growth-Mindset-at-Work.pdf

10. IDENTIFY YOUR FIXED MINDSET TRIGGERS
• When you see someone more skilled than you, does that make you feel
jealous or demotivated?
• Instead, try thinking about how you can learn from that person.
• What strategies are they using that you could also try out to improve
your own skills?
• Feedback: When you get a critical feedback, do you feel defensive?
• Instead, try thinking about how that feedback can help you grow
• Challenges: When you face a challenge, do you feel like giving up or feel
negative about yourself?
• Instead, think about challenges are opportunities to learn

11. FIXED MINDSET TRIGGERS
• Hiding incompetencies: Do you try to hide when you are not as
smart as you think you should be at something? “Malai audaina”
bhanna laaj lagchha?
• Instead, think that when you are not competent at
something, you need to give more effort
• Response to Mistakes: What happens when you make a
mistake? “Thukka!”
• Opportunity to learn
• It’s about learning, NOT being right!

12. EXERCISE: WHAT ARE
YOUR
THOUGHTS/FEELINGS
• Think about the following
situations that happened recently
to you
• Your colleagues or near one is
more skilled than you. What
thoughts come to your mind?
• Feedback: What
thoughts/feelings when someone
provided feedback on what you
have done?
• Mistakes: What thoughts
• Challenges

13. LISTEN TO YOUR OWN
LANGUAGE AND CHANGE IT
• In all of the above cases, become
aware of the inner voice
• Does it represent a fixed mindset?
• What is it telling you?
• I am dumb
• “Yati pani garna sakina?”
• Change it: Remind yourself about
growth mindset
• “Our brain improves with hard
work”
• “Maile mehenat gare bhane
sakinchha!!”

14. LANGUAGE EXAMPLES
FIXED GROWTH
I am dumb What am I missing
This is too hard This will take a lot of effort
She must be smart I want to learn her strategies
I am naturally good at this How can I keep improving my abilities

15. EXERCISE:
LANGUAGE
Remember a recent
instance when you
faced a challenge,
mistake, feedback
situation
What was your
language in that
situation? Fixed, or
Growth
If it is fixed, change
that to Growth
language

16. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS OVER TIME
Remind and rejoice
on the improvements
however small
If you’ve improved in
the past, you can
certainly continue to
improve in the future

17. DON’T
COMPARE
YOURSELF
WITH OTHERS
• Focus on being better tomorrow than
you are today
• When you compare yourself to others,
it can be easy to feel like someone else
is just naturally more talented than
you.
• You don’t know what experiences
might have led them to develop their
skills.
• The goal shouldn’t be to be better than
someone else
• It should be to continue your own skills
over time

18. PRAISE YOURSELF: ON
THE PROCESS OR EFFORT
• Praise yourself time and again
• NOT your talents or abilities
• BUT the effort you are putting
in
• On the strategies you are
implementing

19. EXAMPLE:
SQL
KNOWLEDGE
• “I am great at SQL”
• “I have natural talent in this”
• “Wow! I am so skilled at this!”
Fixed Mindset Praise
• “I am proud of the effort I have put in for
this”
• “I have talent at this, but I’ve done so
and so to make progress”
• “I am working hard to improve my
skills!”
Growth Mindset Praise

20. LET’S WORK TOGETHER
Growth Mindset
Group
Share our
experience in chat
Help each other
improve a growth
mindset

21. REFERENCES/FURTHER
• mindsetkit.org
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
• http://www.inspirehumanresources.com/bring-your-growth-mindset-
to-work/
• Join Good Friday