Over several decades, research by Dweck and others has differentiated between growth mindset -- believing you can cultivate your qualities and personality with effort -- and fixed mindset -- conviction that you have a limited amount of intelligence or talent, a certain personality, an immutable character.
Police are carrying out less proactive work, including fewer breathalyser tests, motoring fixed penalties and convictions for drug trafficking and possession, the report said.
Between lawsuits and state statutes that award fixed compensation for wrongful convictions, state and municipal governments have paid out $2.2 billion to exonerees.
In her cult novels "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" and other works, Rand described rugged and unbending individualists who embodied a raw brand of capitalism and a metaphysical conviction that reality was fixed and objectively knowable.
Our personal convictions and preferences are fixed at the convoluted intersection of native personality, ambient culture, level of education, faith, family structure, habits of media consumption, relations to the means of production, etc.
And the conviction that the game is fixed is nonpartisan.
No fixed standard of proof is required for conviction in an impeachment case, and senators are free to evaluate evidence as they choose.
Their reputations are fixed: Mr. Chirac is beloved despite a recent conviction for embezzling public funds, while Mr. Mitterrand is remembered as dignified, despite the mistress and the secret daughter that he hid from public view.
If so, it suggests the readership is in the middle, those who may have certain convictions about supplements, but they are not fixed.
The realm of truth is never fixed, and neither should the way our minds maintain its convictions.
