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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Decent in highlighting how to think positive/growth about relationships, jobs, and parenting.
A nice book with a useful concept. However, it’s too long with a lot of cherry picked examples, and it fails to connect the core concepts of the book to other psychology theories and fields, which could greatly enhance the value of the book.
The way it is presented: it could have been a blog post. A long one, but still a blog post.
The way it is presented: it could have been a blog post. A long one, but still a blog post.
I know just simply changing your mindset isn't the whole answer to become a better version of yourself, but I do believe it is the necessary first step. You can't expect to change anything if you're not willing to open up your mindset. And if I could go back at start again, this would probably be the first book I would read. Dr Dweck addresses how and why people developed what she calls the "fixed mindset", something everyone would be able to relate to in one way or another. It is believing that you are inherently this way or that way. However, goes on to discuss the "growth mindset" and how one's abilities and intellect are not a fixed trait, and are in fact, changeable and able to be developed. For anyone seeking to understand themselves more, or want to challenge the way they see themselves and the world. I'd definitely recommend giving this a read.
Як і більшість "селф-хелпу" - ідей на три сторінки, розтягнуті на 300. Ідея ок, імплементація - ні.
Book Riot Challenge 2015 - A self-improvement book
There are a couple of skippable chapters (unless you're a huge sports fan or interested in the big historical failures) but I'll give this book an extra star because I've been following this philosophy for about a week and have already seen really positive results. On the surface it's yet another get ahead in your career book, but it's actually a "put little more effort into living your life" tutorial which some of us (me) need to be reminded to do now and again.
There are a couple of skippable chapters (unless you're a huge sports fan or interested in the big historical failures) but I'll give this book an extra star because I've been following this philosophy for about a week and have already seen really positive results. On the surface it's yet another get ahead in your career book, but it's actually a "put little more effort into living your life" tutorial which some of us (me) need to be reminded to do now and again.
This book totally summed me up, and it kind of freaked me out. It's an incredibly useful way of thinking about things, though I do think the author oversimplified some things (especially in the chapters on athletes and CEOs). She also didn't provide nearly as much advice on change as I'd want, though the last chapter that is about change had some good tips. Still, a lot of what she had to say resonated with me. I could wish the book was a little more sophisticated, but her ideas are very sound.
I really enjoyed this read and I’m surprised it wasn’t recommended to me sooner, many of the points the author made resonated with me wholeheartedly.
Learning and applying vs testing to test struck me hard because when I was in school I literally would cram for a test right before, pass the test and move on to the next chapter and be completely lost. As I consider going back to school I worry about my retention and really this makes sense, learning understanding and commuting to memory makes complete sense.
Trying harder next time instead of quitting, I can be driven at times to strive to be better when I want to so again this hit home.
Not feeling smart because I didn’t start in advanced classes, Even though I would have a higher score on the test or in a class that semester I never felt like I fit in with a smart kids because I only switched to Advanced classes in high school.
Your brain grows as you learn, so the more you learn the more you’re capable of learning.
Parents not speaking with the right mindset, I had one parent who spoke to me very positively and with an growth mindset and one parent who spoke very negatively with a fixed mindset, this was very confusing as I grew and probably attributed to why I never felt smart enough or good enough.
Overall I found this a very positive book, and I will apply these lessons to my life as I go forward.
Learning and applying vs testing to test struck me hard because when I was in school I literally would cram for a test right before, pass the test and move on to the next chapter and be completely lost. As I consider going back to school I worry about my retention and really this makes sense, learning understanding and commuting to memory makes complete sense.
Trying harder next time instead of quitting, I can be driven at times to strive to be better when I want to so again this hit home.
Not feeling smart because I didn’t start in advanced classes, Even though I would have a higher score on the test or in a class that semester I never felt like I fit in with a smart kids because I only switched to Advanced classes in high school.
Your brain grows as you learn, so the more you learn the more you’re capable of learning.
Parents not speaking with the right mindset, I had one parent who spoke to me very positively and with an growth mindset and one parent who spoke very negatively with a fixed mindset, this was very confusing as I grew and probably attributed to why I never felt smart enough or good enough.
Overall I found this a very positive book, and I will apply these lessons to my life as I go forward.
I read this book for a bookclub, and I have to say it helped me more than any other self-help book that I've read. Yes, the stories are redundant, but sometimes you need to read the same thing in order to make it stick. I would recommend skipping/skimming the sections that don't interest you.
This book helped me the most by helping me be less afraid of failing or looking like a failure. I'm asking way more questions than I have in the past. I don't feel stupid if I have to review something a million times. I feel like a huge burden has been lifted from my shoulders.
This book helped me the most by helping me be less afraid of failing or looking like a failure. I'm asking way more questions than I have in the past. I don't feel stupid if I have to review something a million times. I feel like a huge burden has been lifted from my shoulders.
An important but relatively simple theory painfully stretched into a full-length book. Read the NY Mag story instead.