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📘 '''''Mindset: The New Psychology of Success''''' is a nonfiction psychology book by Stanford professor Carol S. Dweck that popularized the contrast between “fixed” and “growth” mindsets and how those beliefs shape learning and performance. <ref name="PRH2006" /> Random House published the first U.S. hardcover on 28 February 2006. <ref name="PRH2006" /> The book blends decades of research with case studies across school, work, sports, and relationships, offering readers practical ways to cultivate a growth mindset. <ref name="PRH2006" /> Reviewers have described it as a serious, accessible synthesis that turns laboratory findings into usable advice for everyday life. <ref name="PW2005">{{cite web |title=Mindset: The New Psychology of Success |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781400062751 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=19 December 2005 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> Beyond academia, its framework has been adopted in corporate culture programs—most prominently at Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella—to encourage “learn-it-all” behaviors. <ref name="HBR2016MSFT">{{cite web |title=How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders |url=https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-microsoft-uses-a-growth-mindset-to-develop-leaders |website=Harvard Business Review |publisher=Harvard Business Publishing |date=7 October 2016 |access-date=8 November 2025 |last=Dweck |first=Carol S.}}</ref> The concept also appears in education policy and large-scale research, with the OECD’s PISA 2018 reporting on students’ growth-mindset beliefs and their association with performance. <ref name="OECDPISA2018">{{cite web |title=Sky’s the Limit: Growth mindset and students’ performance in PISA 2018 |url=https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/about/programmes/edu/pisa/publications/national-reports/pisa-2018/brochures/Sky-s-the-limit-pisa-growth-mindset.pdf |website=OECD |publisher=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |date=2019 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
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🏝️ '''Epilogue – A Jamaican Story.'''
== Background & reception ==
🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. Dweck is the Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, known for work on motivation and mindsets. <ref name="StanfordProfiles">{{cite web |title=Carol Dweck – Stanford Profiles |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/carol-dweck |website=Stanford Profiles |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> The book extends her earlier program on “implicit theories,” synthesized for scholars in ''Self-Theories'' (2000). <ref name="SelfTheories2000">{{cite web |title=Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315783048/self-theories-carol-dweck |website=Taylor & Francis |publisher=Psychology Press |date=2000 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> A widely cited paper with Claudia Mueller (1998) showed that praising intelligence can undermine children’s motivation relative to process-focused praise, a cornerstone result that informs the book’s classroom guidance. <ref name="Mueller1998">{{cite journal |last=Mueller |first=Claudia M. |last2=Dweck |first2=Carol S. |date=1998 |title=Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children’s Motivation and Performance |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=75 |issue=1 |pages=33–52 |doi=10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.33 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9686450/ |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> In ''Mindset'' she reframes these findings for a general audience, organizing chapters that move from the core theory to applications in sport, business, relationships, parenting, and schooling, in plain, example-rich prose. <ref name="PRH2006" /> As the idea spread, Dweck cautioned against superficial adoption—what she calls “false growth mindset”—and emphasized pairing effort with effective strategies and feedback. <ref name="HBR2016Explain">{{cite web |title=What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means |url=https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means |website=Harvard Business Review |publisher=Harvard Business Publishing |date=January 2016 |access-date=8 November 2025 |last=Dweck |first=Carol S.}}</ref> Contemporary retrospectives also trace how the research progressed from early lab studies to large, preregistered field trials. <ref name="DweckYeager2019">{{cite journal |last=Dweck |first=Carol S. |last2=Yeager |first2=David S. |date=2019 |title=Mindsets: A View From Two Eras |journal=Perspectives on Psychological Science |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=481–496 |doi=10.1177/1745691618804166 |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6594552/ |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
📈 '''Commercial reception'''. The publisher markets the updated edition as a “million-copy bestseller,” and lists multiple formats (hardcover 28 February 2006; paperback 26 December 2007; audiobook 19 February 2019). <ref name="PRH2006" /> The book has appeared on major bestseller rankings; for example, ''USA Today'' listed it at No. 138 on 29 June 2017. <ref name="USAToday2017">{{cite web |title=USA TODAY Best-Selling Books (29 June 2017) |url=https://www.gannett-cdn.com/usatoday/editorial/life/booklist/usatodaybooks.pdf |website=USA Today |publisher=Gannett |date=29 June 2017 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> ''Publishers Weekly'' also included ''Mindset'' in its retrospective of 25 years of bestselling authors and books. <ref name="PW25Years">{{cite web |title=25 Years of Bestselling Authors and Books |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/89042-25-years-of-bestselling-authors-and-books.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=19 April 2022 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
👍 '''Praise'''. ''Publishers Weekly'' reviewed ''Mindset'' positively on 19 December 2005, highlighting its clear distinction between fixed and growth mindsets and its practical tone. <ref name="PW2005" /> ''Psychology Today'' welcomed the book’s evidence-based case that people who see abilities as developable tend to flourish, presenting the argument to general readers soon after publication. <ref name="PsychToday2006">{{cite web |title=Press for Success |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/sg/articles/200603/press-for-success |website=Psychology Today |publisher=Sussex Publishers |date=1 March 2006 |access-date=8 November 2025 |last=Billings |first=Lee}}</ref> In academia-adjacent venues, reviewers praised the synthesis and classroom relevance; for instance, Dona Matthews in ''Gifted Children'' called it an accessible, well-organized bridge from research to practice. <ref name="Matthews2007">{{cite web |title=Book Review: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006) |url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=giftedchildren |website=Gifted Children (Purdue) |publisher=Purdue University |date=2007 |access-date=8 November 2025 |last=Matthews |first=Dona}}</ref>
👎 '''Criticism'''. Meta-analyses have questioned the size and consistency of mindset effects: Sisk, Burgoyne, Sun, Butler, and Macnamara (2018) reported weak associations with achievement and small, context-dependent intervention effects. <ref name="Sisk2018">{{cite journal |last=Sisk |first=Victoria F. |last2=Burgoyne |first2=Alexander P. |last3=Sun |first3=Jingze |last4=Butler |first4=Jared L. |last5=Macnamara |first5=Brooke N. |date=2018 |title=To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses |journal=Psychological Science |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=549–571 |doi=10.1177/0956797617739704 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617739704 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> A subsequent ''Psychological Bulletin'' review by Macnamara and Burgoyne (2022) similarly found limited overall achievement gains from interventions when evaluated under stricter quality criteria. <ref name="Macnamara2022">{{cite web |title=Do Growth Mindset Interventions Impact Students’ Academic Achievement? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Recommendations for Best Practices |url=https://englelab.gatech.edu/articles/2022/Macnamara%20and%20Burgoyne%20%282022%29%20-%20Do%20Growth%20Mindset%20Interventions%20Impact%20Students%E2%80%99%20Academic%20Achievement.pdf |website=Georgia Tech |publisher=Engle Lab (preprint of article accepted in Psychological Bulletin) |date=2022 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> Large U.K. trials commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation reported no overall impact on pupil attainment in primary schools. <ref name="EEF2019">{{cite web |title=Changing Mindsets – second trial |url=https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and-evaluation/projects/changing-mindset-2015 |website=Education Endowment Foundation |publisher=EEF |date=2019 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> Dweck has also publicly cautioned against misapplication—coining “false growth mindset” to describe praising effort without strategies or equating slogans with practice. <ref name="Atlantic2016">{{cite news |title=How Praise Became a Consolation Prize |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-praise-became-a-consolation-prize/510845/ |work=The Atlantic |date=16 December 2016 |access-date=8 November 2025 |last=Gross-Loh |first=Christine}}</ref>
🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. In business, Microsoft’s post-2014 culture shift under Satya Nadella explicitly drew on growth-mindset language to spur learning-oriented behaviors across teams and leadership development. <ref name="HBR2016MSFT" /> In K–12 education, the OECD embedded mindset indicators in PISA 2018 reports used by ministries and school systems worldwide. <ref name="OECDPISA2018" /> At research scale, the 2019 National Study of Learning Mindsets—a preregistered U.S. trial published in ''Nature''—found a brief online growth-mindset intervention raised grades for lower-achieving ninth-graders and increased advanced-course taking in supportive school contexts. <ref name="Nature2019">{{cite journal |last=Yeager |first=David S. |last2=Hanselman |first2=Paul |last3=Walton |first3=Gregory M. |date=2019 |title=A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement |journal=Nature |volume=573 |issue=7774 |pages=364–369 |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1466-y |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1466-y |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> Dweck’s broader influence on education was recognized with the 2017 Yidan Prize for Education Research, awarded for demonstrating how mindset beliefs can affect student learning. <ref name="EdWeekYidan">{{cite web |title=Carol Dweck Wins $4 Million Prize for Research on 'Growth Mindsets' |url=https://www.edweek.org/leadership/carol-dweck-wins-4-million-prize-for-research-on-growth-mindsets/2017/09 |website=Education Week |publisher=Editorial Projects in Education |date=20 September 2017 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
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