Fixed Mindsets Of Brainology Dweck

Everyone wants to know the key to being intelligent. Could the key be that you are naturally born with intelligence? or that you have to put in effort to become intelligent? Carol S. Dweck, the psychologist at Stanford University explains in “Brainology" that intelligence is based on “what students believe about their brains.” In Dweck’s research with her graduate students she shows that you can either believe intelligence is something fixed or it is something that requires effort. She shows that intelligence is “what students believe about their brains whether they see their intelligence as something fixed or something that can grow and change” (1).
 I agree with Dweck’s research because it does all depend on what you believe about your brain

Dweck states that there are two mindsets. One of the mindsets is a fixed mindset which students believe that their abilities and intelligence can not be enhanced. The second mindset is a growth mindset students with this mindset believe that their intelligence will be reached through effort. Dweck emphasizes that different mindsets affect our motivation, learning, and school achievement. These mindsets affect students minds, one would be when students are afraid of challenges, for example if a student does not understand math and does not ask questions or doesn't even try to put in effort the student will have a setback, and a fixed mindset. Some students are not afraid of a challenge they just fight them and have a growth mindset. Many students believe that intelligence is fixed once they don't understand something thats the end of their intelligence.
 Dweck then did another research on seventh graders which is the hardest transition for students because classes get bigger, the students get less attention from teachers because teachers can not focus on so many students at once. Also students school environment and classes are less personalized and the grading gets

Next Dweck researched the two mindsets and found that each mindset had “radically different beliefs about effort” (2). The students who had a growth mindset believed that hard work was the key to intelligence. Everyone needs to work hard for what they want and it will help your abilities grow. “Even geniuses have had to work hard for their accomplishments”(2). On the other hand students that had a fixed mindset believed something totally different which was if you worked hard on something it meant that you weren't smart enough and you didn't have ability to do something. They believed that just by doing nothing intelligence would come to them on it own. These students also believed that if they had to work hard for something they weren't smart enough and that they didn't have ability but if they tried to work hard they would be afraid of falling and thats one thing that fixed mindset students always try to avoid.
 When it comes to setbacks students with different mindsets take it in differently. Growth mindset students just keep trying they either study the same thing harder or they try different techniques to understand the material they jump right back up they don't let setbacks bring