Growth Mindset

A person with a growth mindset believes that effort, learning and persistence more than natural abilities. What others see as challenges and failures, we see as opportunities to learn and improve. 

Instead of thinking, "I can't do this," we think, "I can't do this yet."

The good news is that all of us are born with a growth mindset. As toddlers, we didn't know what impossible meant. However, this growth mindset may slowly give way to a fixed mindset in the teenage years, as observed by research psychologist Martin Covington, in his book, Making The Grade.

As students become more self-conscious of how they perform relative to others, or when they encounter failures as their studies get more rigorous, self-doubt may start to creep in.

Sometimes, encouragements and saying “jiayou, you can do it!” isn't enough. Students have to realise it on their own and say...

Here's a nice poster from MOE that describes what a growth mindset is. While the context is about learning art, the principles are applicable to other areas as well.

This Harvard Business Review article from Professor Carol Dweck clarifies some common misconceptions of what a growth mindset is and isn't.