Do you think you're a natural at science? ...math? ...English?
Sorry to hear that.
The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is
malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. They
want to learn above all else. After all, if you believe that you can
expand your intellectual skills, you want to do just that. Because
slipups stem from a lack of effort or acquirable skills, not fixed
ability, they can be remedied by perseverance. Challenges are energizing
rather than intimidating; they offer opportunities to learn. Students
with such a growth mind-set, we predicted, were destined for greater
academic success and were quite likely to outperform their counterparts.
Believing that your success (or failure) in a subject stems from your innate ability is the secret to learned helplessness.
The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about
looking smart with less regard for learning. They had negative views of
effort, believing that having to work hard at something was a sign of
low ability. They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did
not need to work hard to do well. Attributing a bad grade to their own
lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.
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