Infographic: Growth Mindset v. Fixed Mindset

I found this in a post by Jackie Gerstein: Growth Mindset: GoBrain and Making a Splash, and it comes from the GoBrain website by Carol Reiley (visit the site to see the full-sized version).

I'm personally not a big fan of talking about "fixed mindset" since that, even unintentionally, reinforces the idea that it is an either-or thing, as if people have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. My preference is instead to focus 100% on growth mindset attributes, helping people to see it as a continuum, so that everyone is always striving to apply growth mindset beliefs to different aspects of their lives: school, work, hobbies, relationships, etc.

But... it's handy to have a chart that does take this contrast approach, and I think this is one of my favorites among charts showing growth v. fixed.

GROWTH MINDSET v. FIXED MINDSET

Growth Mindset

intelligence can be developed

leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to:

embrace challenges

persist in the face of setbacks

see effort as the path to mastery

learn from criticism

find lessons and inspiration in the success of others

result:

reach ever-higher levels of achievement

Fixed Mindset

intelligence is static

leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to:

avoid challenges

give up easily

see effort as fruitless or worse

ignore useful negative feedback

feel threatened by success of others

result:

may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential