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== Introduction ==

 

'''''Mindset''''' is a psychology book by {{Tooltip|Stanford University}} psychologist {{Tooltip|Carol S. Dweck}} that contrasts “fixed” and “growth” mindsets and explains how beliefs about ability shape achievement across school, work, sports, and relationships.<ref name="PRH2006">{{cite web |title=Mindset by Carol S. Dweck |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/ |website=Penguin Random House |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> Drawing on decades of research, Dweck argues that seeing abilities as developable—through effort, strategies, and feedback—supports learning and resilience, whereas treating them as fixed undermines persistence.<ref name="PRH2006" /> The prose is example-driven and practical, including a self-assessment checklist; later updates add guidance on avoiding a “false growth mindset” and on applying the idea to group cultures.<ref name="PW2005">{{cite web |title=Mindset: The New Psychology of Success |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781400062751 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=19 December 2005 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="PRH2006" /> The publisher bills the book as a million-copy bestseller, and its ideas continue to circulate widely among educators and managers.<ref name="PRH2006" /><ref name="WaPo2023">{{cite news |title=Growth mind-set: Why friends, family and work matter |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/19/growth-mindset/ |work=The Washington Post |date=19 June 2023 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> It also charted on {{Tooltip|The Washington Post}}’s weekly paperback nonfiction list in 2017, appearing on 25 June and again on 13 August that year.<ref name="WaPo2017Jun25">{{cite news |title=Washington Post bestsellers: June 25, 2017 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2017/06/22/0919588c-568c-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html |work=The Washington Post |date=22 June 2017 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="WaPo2017Aug13">{{cite news |title=Washington Post bestsellers: August 13, 2017 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2017/08/11/ab95065e-7d44-11e7-b2b1-aeba62854dfa_story.html |work=The Washington Post |date=11 August 2017 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>

 

== Chapters ==

 

''—Note: The above summary follows the {{Tooltip|Random House}} first edition (2006).''<ref name="OCLC58546262">{{cite web |title=Mindset : the new psychology of success |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/58546262?tab=details |website=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>

 

== Background & reception ==

 

🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. In corporate culture, {{Tooltip|Microsoft}} under CEO {{Tooltip|Satya Nadella}} has explicitly promoted “growth mindset” as a touchstone for organizational learning and change, with Nadella discussing it publicly at {{Tooltip|Davos}} and in interviews.<ref name="Telegraph2018">{{cite news |title=Microsoft chief Satya Nadella: 'We're on the right side of history' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/05/27/microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-right-side-history/ |work=The Telegraph |date=27 May 2018 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph2020">{{cite news |title=Davos live: Nadella says Microsoft aims for a ‘growth mindset’ culture |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/23/davos-wef-markets-live-latest-news-pound-euro-ftse-100/ |work=The Telegraph |date=23 January 2020 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> In education and management, {{Tooltip|The Washington Post}} has documented the concept’s continuing influence on how teachers and bosses give feedback and frame challenge.<ref name="WaPo2023" /> Large-scale school implementations have been studied experimentally, including a U.S. national trial delivering a brief online program to ninth-graders at scale.<ref name="Yeager2019" /> The book has also drawn high-profile endorsements, such as a favorable write-up on {{Tooltip|Bill Gates}}’s {{Tooltip|GatesNotes}}, which helped broaden mainstream awareness.<ref name="Gates2015">{{cite web |title=‘Mindset’ by Carol Dweck |url=https://www.gatesnotes.com/mindset-the-new-psychology-of-success |website=GatesNotes |date=7 December 2015 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>

 

 

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