Growth Mindset

The belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed over time with effort, good strategies, and help from others. If you have a growth mindset, you see challenges as opportunities to learn rather than proof that you’re “just bad” at something. For example, instead of saying “I’m just not a math person,” someone with a growth mindset would say “Math is hard for me right now, but if I practice, I can get better.” This term, coined by psychologist Carol Dweck, contrasts with a fixed mindset (the belief that abilities are static). Encouraging a growth mindset in school means praising effort and progress, embracing mistakes as learning chances, and always adding that powerful little word “yet” to the end of “I can’t do it…”.
Keywords: growth mindset, belief in improvement, positive mindset