My goal isn’t to provoke or be a contrarian. If this post upsets you, because you are passionate about the virtues of having a growth mindset, you should consider the possibility that your mindset may ...

Often the messages students hear from families and teachers praise or criticize their innate abilities, and so they grow to believe they are one way or another, developing into a fixed mindset. For ...

Some years ago, as I passed through the Center for Teaching and Learning at the private college where I’d been asked to give a workshop for faculty on writing and publishing, I saw a big stack of ...

Those who have a growth mindset think of intelligence and other abilities—athletic, musical, artistic, etc.—as developing over time and that there are always opportunities to learn. Those with a fixed ...

The idiom, "you can't see the forest through the trees," highlights our propensity to let a narrow focus on details obscure our ability to see the big picture. This problem plagues leaders at ...

Relationships are essential to our lives – but they bring about both wonderful splendors and terrible spectacles. Our time of joy with others can be tainted by deep frustration. Your significant other ...

“Employees here keep telling me, ‘If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.’ Is that a common expression?” a client asked me. About three months before this conversation, he had transferred from his employer’s ...

Wondering about the power of yet growth mindset, and how it can help your classroom? You’ve come to the right place! The growth mindset and the power of yet have emerged as game-changers in education.