“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” is cited as a “must read” in three of the last four books I selected to summarize for this blog. That made it easy to pick for this summary. Dr. Carol Dweck is one of the world’s leading psychologists in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. This book contains important and practical advice for educators and parents. Carol reports on important research including her own. Educational leaders need to be familiar with this body of work.
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Interesting review. I found that your review listed a lot of the topics in the book Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Patterson, et. al. published in 2008 and Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers (they even use some overlapping examples). I’m not sure if you’ve read all three but if you have, does Mindset cover any unique ground that the other two don’t (or cover it in a different way)?
Doug:
Thanks for the comment. I think that they all draw on the same body of research, but Dweck does add some of her own studies. I haven’t read “The Power to Change Anything.” Thanks for that.
Best,
Doug