Friday, July 21, 2017

7.5 It's complicated

"Complex Simple" (1939) by Wassily Kandinsky
According to Dweck,  "The fixed mindset complicates people. It makes them worried about their fixed traits and creates the need to document them, sometimes at your own expense" (205-206).

Does the growth mindset un-complicate people? If so, how so?
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  1. Bailey SilkAugust 8, 2017 at 1:57 PM

    I believe that growth mindset and whether or not it complicates people is probably a matter of circumstances. On one hand you could argue that it un-complicates people by allowing them to truly believe they can do anything because they can always work on and improve whatever skill they are trying to grow. However, on the other hand I believe that it could also complicate growth mindset people in the same way that it complicates fixed mindset people. By believing they can grow at anything or even just certain things, they may choose to focus and worry about growing those skills so much that it impedes on other aspects of their lives and complicates the way that they live.

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  2. UnknownAugust 9, 2017 at 10:34 AM

    I completely agree with you, Bailey. The development of a person's mindset is largely dependent on the circumstances surrounding the person's growth. Different circumstances are going to affect people differently, causing their mindsets to grow in different ways. People are different. Therefore, even the same circumstances are going to affect people in different ways, causing their mindsets to grow in different ways.
    -Tyler Macon

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  3. UnknownAugust 9, 2017 at 7:44 PM

    While I agree with both Bailey and Tyler, I am more partial to Tyler's explanation. No two people are the same in the way our brain processes and react to situations. Even in the exact same circumstances everyone is going to have a different quirk in reactions. As to the proposed question, I think if anything having a growth mindset complicates people further. I like to take into account that when you are in a fixed mindset, you are after all fixed, on a certain way. While being in the mindset of growing you have the ability to take a hold the focus of a empire of ideas and actions. In my personal it makes a person more complex as they have no qualms about trying new things, and growing further.

    -Brooke hill

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