The document discusses fostering a growth mindset. It emphasizes using the word "yet" when facing challenges or things you cannot currently do in order to maintain a positive attitude about improving over time. It suggests praising effort over innate ability and seeing mistakes and obstacles as opportunities to learn rather than failures. Communicating a growth mindset to others involves talking positively about challenges, struggles, effort and continuous learning. An growth mindset allows people to thrive when facing difficulties by focusing on getting better over time rather than proving existing abilities.

1. The power of yet:
Do you believe you can improve?
Nicola Klette | Coffee Morning | April 2016

2. • Diligent
• Loved homework
• Eager to learn
• Good grades
• Happy

3. • More subjects
• Different classrooms
• Demanding
• Frustrated
• Lower grades

5. I am not an artist
I am not good a cooking
I tried x and I couldn’t do it
YET
YET
YET

7. Dealing with challenge
Hide mistakes and deficiencies
Capitalise on mistakes and
confront deficiencies

8. Dealing with obstacles

9. as a path to
Mastery
as fruitless or
Worse
Seeing effort
Work hard, effort is key It should come naturally

10. Dealing with criticism

11. Success of others
Learn @ all cost
Look smart @ all cost

12. their full potential
Result

14. So how do we foster
a growth mindset?

15. Communicate mindset through praise

16. • Love challenges – talk about them
• Share your struggle and obstacles
you have overcome
• Be intrigued by mistakes – to see where you
apply different strategies.
• Enjoy effort – I worked hard on this presentation
• Keep on learning – instill a love for learning

17. YET

18. Why waste time proving over and over how great you
are, when you could be getting better? Why hide
deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for
friends or partners who will just shore up your self
esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to
grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of
experiences that will stretch you? The passion for
stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially)
when its not going well, is the hallmark of the growth
mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive
during some of the most challenging times of their lives
Carol S. Dweck