Two Ways of Thinking
Carol Dweck, the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, identified two ways of thinking.
We either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. The people with the former believe that they are born with certain abilities and those are what determines their capacity in achieving success while the people with the latter believe that their abilities are built and developed over time.
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