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A unique opportunity for in-depth learning with best-selling author of A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink, leading motivation researcher Carol Dweck, the father of social neuroscience Matt Lieberman, science of play and goodness researchers Stuart Brown and Dacher Keltner and more.

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Changing mindsets
Saturday 20 November 2010, 14:00-17:00

Professor Carol Dweck speaking at Mind & It's Potential

Professor Carol Dweck

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.

Her world-renowned research has highlighted the critical role of mindsets in education, business, and...

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In this workshop, Dr. Dweck will delve more deeply into mindsets, showing how a fixed mindset can cause motivation and confidence to be fragile and how it can lead to defensiveness and discouragement in the face of challenges. She will also show how a growth mindset can lead to confidence and perseverance even in the absence of current expertise. And she will show how these mindsets play out in all areas of life from school and work to personal relationships and parenting.

With this in mind, she will lead a series of discussions and exercises that teach people:

  • to recognize the mindset that they and those around them hold
  • to understand fixed vs. growth mindset approaches to specific, key life situations
  • to replace their fixed mindset thought and action patterns with growth mindset ones
  • to use language and feedback in a way that encourages a growth mindset in those around them