The power of yet: Do you believe you can improve?

Nicola Klette | Coffee Morning | April 2016

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

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

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

YET YET YET

Dealing with challenge

Hide mistakes and deficiencies

Capitalise on mistakes and confront deficiencies

Dealing with obstacles

as a path to Mastery

as fruitless or Worse

Seeing effort

Work hard, effort is key It should come naturally

Dealing with criticism

Success of others

Learn @ all cost

Look smart @ all cost

their full potential

Result

So how do we foster a growth mindset?

Communicate mindset through praise

• 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

YET

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