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10 results (expanded search) for "dweck"
Parenting
Cultivating Growth Mindset
Praise your child's effort and strategy, not his intelligence or talent — Carol Dweck's classic.
Leadership
Designing an Effective Stretch Assignment
Task 20% bigger than employee's current ability. Scares 30%, fails 30%, succeeds 40%. Difficult balance.
Parenting
Specific Praise Over Generic
Instead of "great job," describe exactly what he did — "I love how you split the problem into two steps."
Parenting
Failure Celebration
Tell your child about your failures weekly — the biggest gift granting him "permission to fail."
Parenting
Math Curiosity, Not Math Anxiety
Swap "you're bad at math" with "what's happening here?" — Boaler proves the math brain is built, not born.
Parenting
Mistake Celebration
At dinner, each family member shares his biggest mistake of the day — normalizes failure and reinforces growth mindset.
Parenting
Failure Portfolio
A notebook proudly logging your child's failures — resists "one-perfect-version" perfectionism before adolescence.
Parenting
Growth-Mindset Language for a Struggling Reader
Replace "you're not good at reading" with sentences linking difficulty to a temporary stage, not a fixed identity.
Parenting
Praising Process Over Outcome — A Deepening
Beyond "good job": a specific 3-part formula linking praise to the actual strategy used.
Parenting
Celebrating Incremental Academic Progress Ritual
The final grade doesn't show progress — a weekly ritual comparing your child only to himself, not an external standard.