What set all these successes apart was an absolute refusal to give up. Even Mozart wrote some trite stuff initially. Most Successful People Screwed Up Royally Firstĭweck outlines the initial struggles of great successes like artist Jackson Pollock and basketball player Michael Jordan.On the other hand, a growth mindset tells us that hard work is worth the risk and always results in improvement. A fixed mindset can trap us into defending our talents to the point that we are afraid we may find our abilities lacking if we actually try. When we tell our children, athletes, writers, artists, musicians, and business people that they have “talents” and “gifts,” these compliments often stymie growth when challenges and competition threaten to topple these prodigies off their pedestals.Īccording to Dweck, a fixed mindset tells us that it is far more glamorous to be naturally talented than honestly hardworking. Dweck discusses the dangers of harping on ability and that defense of talent can lead to a fixed mindset. Here are six reasons this must be so.īritney never mentions ability in her song. When I returned, I shook the sand out of Mindset, and freed an errant sand flea, trapped in Chapter 4, titled ironically “Sports: the Mindset of a Champion.”įrom the moment I settled myself in my damp chair to read, I realized that Britney just had to have read this book before the 2013 release of her pumping jam.

While I was waiting for the book to dry out a little, I took a run/shuffle down the beach listening to Britney’s song Work Work, the clean version of what she sang on the MTV Music Awards. In my defense, a rogue wave dumped my beach chair. Right after I reread Browne’s Fat Is the New Thirty: The Sweet Potato Queen’s Guide to Coping with (the Crappy Parts of) Life, I accidently dropped Mindset into the ocean. Since this book was part of our school’s book study this summer, my copy found its way between all the Jill Conner Browne’s Sweet Potato Queens books I took on my beach vacay. The cover tells us that we can all learn to fulfill our potential in parenting, business, school, and relationships. Published by Ballentine in 2006, Mindset boasts one million copies in print. basically climbs the mountain of potential and pokes her flag in the top through her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

Fat Is The New 30 by Jill Conner Browne