"The barrier to this group is mindset – they don't think they'll make use of the advanced features, or think they'll find it too complicated".
This often results in hiring others who mirror back a leader's own world view, creating a "group think" mindset that can stifle creativity.
"You avoid the group-think mindset," he says.
In the study cited here, during the two years the groups were studied, the "growth mindset" group that was consistently praised for working hard contained eager learners and their grades improved.
But Welcome to the Terrordome isn't about coherent polemic – it's all about a cornered Chuck lashing out, a cyclone of paranoia giving a hint of the group's embattled mindset.
His view is based on his landmark study of achievement in 20,000 high students that showed that Asian-American students, more than any other ethnic group, had the "mindset" that hard work paid off, and their stick-to-itiveness was predictive of their success.
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The authors found that individuals in the deliberative mindset group "more easily accessed memory traces of information incidental to the ongoing to task". This means that although they were deliberating information, they were focused on how it pertains to the task in hand.
The "fixed mindset" group who were praised for being smart became more self-conscious, more shy, lacked the enthusiastic learning style of the other group, and had lower grades.
At the end of the trial, patients and families in the positive-mindset group reported significantly less worry during the treatment process.
