Psychology of Success

In this app, you’ll learn how a simple belief about yourself - a belief we discovered in our research - guides a large part of your life. In fact, it permeates every part of your life. Much of what you think of as your personality actually grows out of this “mindset.” Much of what may be preventing you from fulfilling your potential grows out of it.
No book has ever explained this mindset and shown people how to make use of it in their lives. You’ll suddenly understand the greats - in the sciences and arts, in sports, and in business - and the would-have-beens. You’ll understand your mate, your boss, your friends, your kids. You’ll see how to unleash your potential - and your children’s.

It is my privilege to share my findings with you. Besides accounts of people from my research, I’ve filled each chapter with stories both ripped from the headlines and based on my own life and experience, so you can see the mindsets in action. (In most cases, names and personal information have been changed to preserve anonymity; in some cases, several people have been condensed into one to make a clearer point. A number of the exchanges are re-created from memory, and I have rendered them to the best of my ability.)

At the end of each chapter and throughout the last chapter, I show you ways to apply the lessons - ways to recognize the mindset that is guiding your life, to understand how it works, and to change it if you wish.

CONTENTS

1. THE MINDSETS


Why Do People Differ?
What Does All This Mean for You? The Two Mindsets
A View from the Two Mindsets
So, What’s New?
Self-Insight: Who Has Accurate Views of Their Assets and Limitations?
What’s in Store
2. INSE THE MINDSETS


Is Success About Learning - or Proving You’re Smart?
Mindsets Change the Meaning of Failure
Mindsets Change the Meaning of Effort
Questions and Answers
3. THE TRUTH ABOUT ABILITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT


Mindset and School Achievement
Is Artistic Ability a Gift?
The Danger of Praise and Positive Labels
Negative Labels and How They Work
4. SPORTS: THE MINDSET OF A CHAMPION


The Idea of the Natural
“Character”
What Is Success?
What Is Failure?
Taking Charge of Success
What Does It Mean to Be a Star?
Hearing the Mindsets
5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIP


Enron and the Talent Mindset
Organizations That Grow
A Study of Mindset and Management Decisions
Leadership and the Fixed Mindset
Fixed-Mindset Leaders in Action
Growth-Mindset Leaders in Action
A Study of Group Processes
Groupthink Versus We Think
The Praised Generation Hits the Workforce
Are Negotiators Born or Made?
Corporate Training: Are Managers Born or Made?
Are Leaders Born or Made?
6. RELATIONSHIPS: MINDSETS IN LOVE (OR NOT)


Relationships Are Different
Mindsets Falling in Love
The Partner as Enemy
Competition: Who’s the Greatest?
Developing in Relationships
Friendship
Shyness
Bullies and Victims: Revenge Revisited
7. PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COACHES: WHERE DO MINDSETS COME FROM?


Parents (and Teachers): Messages About Success and Failure
Teachers (and Parents): What Makes a Great Teacher (or Parent)?
Coaches: Winning Through Mindset
Our Legacy
8. CHANGING MINDSETS


The Nature of Change
The Mindset Lectures
A Mindset Workshop
Brainology
More About Change
Taking the First Step
People Who Don’t Want to Change
Changing Your Child’s Mindset
Mindset and Willpower
Maintaining Change
The Road Ahead