What I have is
“A mindset is a mental attitude. It shapes our actions and our thoughts” (Meier & Kropp, 2010, p. 179)
and
“the sum total of the activated cognitive procedures” (Gollwitzer, 2011, p. 528).
Can somebody please recommend something more - ideally a discussion to the term?
Please not about growth/fixed mindset - this is too narrow right here.
Gollwitzer, P. M. (2011). Mindset Theory of Action Phases. In P. A. M. V. Lange, A. W. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume One (New., pp. 526–546). Los Angeles: Sage Social Psychology Program.
Meier, J. D., & Kropp, M. (2010). Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life. Bellevue, WA: Innovation Playhouse.
Our mindset shapes our beliefs in accomplishing something.
It shapes whether we believe we can learn, change & grow (growth mindset)- or not (fixed). What do you believe in - fixed or growth??
People with fixed mindset seek approval whereas people with growth mindset seek Development
If you have fixed mindset you will not huddle play, analyze weakness or try to get better practicing.
People with growth mindset look inward and work on improving skills and mastering theie craft.
Anyone can acquire growth mindset and make impossible possible!!
In the literature I've read, "mindset" seems to simply refer to a set of beliefs (or attitudes) relative to some topic or object. This topic or object is often called the "attitude object" in the attitudes literature.
Most discussions about mindsets concern a specific attitude object (e.g., Dweck's growth mindset). Studies about mindsets often compare the effects of holding one set of beliefs/attitudes (Mindset A) with another set of beliefs/attitudes (Mindset B).
Depending on the topic, Mindset A may be considered the opposite of Mindset B, or they may be independent variables. Typically, as is normal in the attitudes literature, the strength of the belief(s) in question is measured on a continuous scale, typically with Likert items.
Dear Heidi,
As I see it, a mindset is a set of beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, feeelings and emotions that one bears in his/her mind regarding a certain issue at a certain time. As you say, one's mindset shapes our thinking, feelings and behavior. For example, if you are in a good mood you tend to be more altruistic than when you are in a negative or neutral mood. Consider a seecond example. If you think that exam marks are due to luck and not to your intelligence or effort, then you are inclined to not study much because to get good marks, you think, does not depend on your effort and intelligence. Peope do to not like to espouse two mental sets, attitudes or bahaviors that contradict each other. When this is the case, they tend to change one of them such that the contradiction disappears. For example, if you are a smoker and think that smoking causes cancer, you can either change your mindset, to think that that is not the case and hence you keep on smoking, or give up smoking because you believe or even know that smoking is related to cancer. The idea that people avoid espousing contradictory mindsets lies at the theart of Leo Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. I think you can proffit a lot from being acquainted with this theory. The same is true regarding the attribution theory, a social theory that argues that the causes (internal vs. external; stable vs. unstable; controlable vs. uncontrolable) we attribute to our performance and behaviors greatly shape our performance and behaviors. For example, there is accumulated evidence that shows that we tend to explain our failures (e.g., to fail in an exam situation) as a function of external causes (e.g., the exam was quite a difficult exam), and our successes (e.g., to perform well in an exam situation) as a function of internal causes ("I performel well because I am intelligent). This is called the fundamental attribution error. There is also amassing evidence that shows that we tend to see our failures as a result of external circumstancies and our successes as a result of our capabilities. In contradistinction, we tend to see others ' failures as a result of their inability and their successes as a result of external conditions. This is callled the self-deserving bias.
This is a short answer to your question. Even though, I hope that this helps.
Best regards,
Orlando
Pls. find the attached links
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mindset
http://sourcesofinsight.com/what-is-mindset/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset
Our mindset shapes our beliefs in accomplishing something.
It shapes whether we believe we can learn, change & grow (growth mindset)- or not (fixed). What do you believe in - fixed or growth??
People with fixed mindset seek approval whereas people with growth mindset seek Development
If you have fixed mindset you will not huddle play, analyze weakness or try to get better practicing.
People with growth mindset look inward and work on improving skills and mastering theie craft.
Anyone can acquire growth mindset and make impossible possible!!
I found a good definition:
"A consistent pattern of thoughts about a specific topic can become a mindset, which represents an established set of beliefs that shape how people think and reason about this topic." (Auster-Gussman & Rothman, 2018)
There is a good piece of research on Indian mindsets. I think this paper will clarify many of the issues related to it.
Sinha, J.B.P., Singh, S., Gupta, P. et al. Psychol Stud (2010) 55: 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-010-0001-x
Hello,
This is how I perceive a mindset to be in general. If you like, you can be considerate to it as well.
"A mindset is a blueprint of an individual's personality and behavior".
Best regards,
SQ
Mindset | What is Mindset
https://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about
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