http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology...1400062756

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(book)

From sport performance/knowledge perspective:
http://www.ampedtraining.com/2011/review...ook-review

The content is great. (You can skip a lot of stories if you prefer.)
Really liked it (& proved very useful already), so I hope others might want to benefit from integrating this into their lives.

There's a podcast I heard a while back where Dr Dweck is interviewed and explains the basics of her book. Good stuff.
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/show...l1011.html

Great recommendation, thanks!

I went and downloaded the audio in May, when I first read this thread. The book comes across as moralist and simplistic, her examples are often all good and all bad, she is bound to know there is more to it. Carol tries to explain way too many things. And, I am sure in future editions she'll remove the references to Tiger Woods

The book has one single idea, and that you find in the first chapter. Yet, the repetition and the examples she gives are useful to drive her point home. It's nothing that I (we) didn't know, but the book makes it painfully clear: having the wrong mindset makes things painfully difficult and keeps me stuck in a validation rut. It addresses clearly the root of all failures: not defining failure as the lack of ambition to learn and improve, rather than just wanting to perform well and just been seen as excellent. Staying in the comfort zone instead of going for something more (and risking not getting it.) That's the real failure.

I can go back and see how I build my own identity as the "smart" kid, looking down on others who were "not so fortunate". When my 6th grade teacher asked me to join the basketball team I wondered what was wrong with him - couldn't he see how clumsy I was? I wasn't very good at languages, either, so my english had to wait until I went to university. And in so many other domains, dancing, in conversation, with girls... These days I catch myself in this judging mindset. I meditate and in the back of my mind I'm thinking whether I'm doing it right. It's this damn left brain that doesn't want to let go of the old ways.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/video/c/gen...568336.asp

Since we are at it, those of you with children may want to read this article on Dweck's work:
How Not to Talk to Your Kids.