21A – Reading Reflection No. 2

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.

For my second reading reflection, I decided to read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success a book by Carol Dweck. This is book, as it is implied by the title, focuses a lot on psychology and how it can be used assist with success. Psychology has always been a subject that has powered my curiosity as I believe it is the key to understanding a lot about people and, more importantly, oneself. It is curious that even though it has never been a topic that I wanted to pursue as a major, I always found that it helped with different aspects of life. Mindset, in particular, talks about how our everyday interactions with people and general events, in turn, forms one’s mindset. The author divides his theory into two separate categories; the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. According to Carol Dweck, these two categories of our mind, focus on solving problems in separate way. One, the growth mindset, is more centered in solving problems in creative ways, while the other, the fixed mindset, is more focused on solving problems using a particular way.

               I believe that this book contributed a lot in making me more flexible when it came to certain problems found in class as I believe that entrepreneurship is all about alternate solution to problems. I also think that it is possible due to the straight-forwardness of previous classes, to only develop our fixed mindset when it comes to solving problems and finding solutions. However, ENT3003 makes you think a lot outside the box and is all about finding alternate solutions. For example, when it came to a recent exercise, “Growing your social capital,” I had to think outside the box in order to grow my networking circle. I believe that this book is closely related to the ENT3003 because, in my opinion, the class forces you to use different approaches for different problems.

               If I had to assign an exercise that would make you use the theory established by Mindset, I would create one that would not be able to be solved by a fixed mindset and instead, would force the participant to use the growth mindset. To clarify, the students would have to be forced to use creative way to solve the issue in hand and it would be vary hard to solve the issue using one’s “usual” way of thinking. An example of this could be an exercise compromised of a critical thinking aspect that would force you to think outside the box, such a story of a subject with a particular problem which would have to be solved by the student using strict, outside the box thinking.

               I think my “aha” moment is more closely related to my personal life. I believe that I don’t understand when I’m continuously using fixed thinking until I actually take a step back and look at how I’ve been solving everyday problems thus far. The author helped me take a step back and look at how focused and caught up we often get in life with our everyday issues, and in particular, work problems, which in turn, doesn’t allow us to find creative ways of problem solving. Carol Dweck mentions how entrepreneurs and innovators often get stuck in a fixed mindset loop which inhibits their success.

 


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