Mindset Book Report

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Did you know what? Everyone can be success. Of course, you have already known that. But why this world is in, there are so many people choose to be failure instead of success. This is just the matter of human’s mind setting. According to Carol S. Dweck, the author of Mindset book which showing the way mindsets turn people into failure or success, she has shown that there are two different mindsets in this human society that is fixed mindset and growth mindset. In her theory, she showed that your abilities were fixed when you were born and it doesn’t change (Dweck, p6, 2007). In the other hand, you can flourish your initial abilities to get smarter through attempt to learn continuously. (Dweck, p7, 2007) In this book, the author Dweck state …show more content…

They don’t fear about get failures (Dweck, p10. 2006). With old saying from the experiences people through thousand years and still value until now which teach people keep learning in any life problem achieve the given goal is that: “ if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again” or “not thing venture, nothing gain” (Dweck, p.9. 2006) . For a clearly example, did you know Micheal Jordan, a famous former American basketball of Chicago Bull team, who famous from the way he push himself to continue learning every day from his great failures. He was refused to play in basketball team in high school because of height loss and his family didn’t allow him to play instead up studying. Getting above everything, he won’t give up and training himself every day. “One of his coaches said that: “Usually, I arrive at school between 7a.m and 7:30 a.m Micheal was there before me. Each time come in and open the door, I heard the sound of bowing, in autumn, in winter, in summer. Almost every morning I had to ask him to leave door”. He doesn’t scare of failure, it just push him to learn more. He said that: “I know that fear is an obstacle from some people, but for me it just an illusion. Failure always makes me try harder on the next