What book are you reading right now?
I am currently reading Mindset by Dr Carol S Dweck.
It basically talks about two kinds of Mindset in people all around us.
- Fixed Mindset
- Growth Mindset
People with fixed Mindset only follow perfection and anything less than that is useless or meaningless to them. They believe that humans are born with certain abilities, skills or talent and their entire life is defined by those abilities.
From their childhood they are afraid of failures and they always want to have an ultimate level of success. When they don’t get that, they pretend to have that ,so that the others don’t criticize them. Hence, they are very much afraid of criticism, making them unlearners.
While on the other hand, people with growth mindset don’t believe in perfection. They take failures as opportunities to learn more and they give more emphasis to knowledge, experience and growth . They don’t believe that one failure or two can define your entire lifetime and that’s why they are always striving for more.
Even if they get success they don’t stop and continue to learn more to add more skills in their arsenal. They are always hungry for knowledge, making them lifelong learners . This is the kind of mindset we should always have, no matter what our age is.
This is what I am getting from the book, still a long way to finish the book. I hope this post will inspire readers to read the book. Those who have already read it , I would like to know their thoughts on the book in the comments section
The Perceptions Square 
That seems like a book I might like to read, myself. So you like psychology books, right? Have you read “The Courage to be Disliked?” or “Surrounded by Narcissists?” Those books changed my life.
Not exactly, but recently I decided to read some..not read these titles, I will surely read them now .. great to know these books really changed your life.. might affect mine too…thank you for your precious words
You’re welcome. I also recommend “from heart and hand” by ajahn jayasaro if you’re at all interested in or curious about buddhist teachings on how to practically manage stress.
Oh yes, stress, the biggest enemy of us especially in this fast paced world, would love to read the book….thank you for suggesting…
Now I’m intrigued lol definitely going to add this to my list of must reads. Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome.. I am glad it resonated with you….
This is a great book, i lived far too long within the fixed Mindset and this book helped me being more flexible and working towards improvement more resiliently :D.
Great to know that..must be very helpful… surely I can get a lot from this…thanks a lot for your precious words
Very inspiring
Thank you for your precious words….
We are just reading ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay and ‘The School of Night’ by Karl Ove Knausgård, one of my favourite authors.
By the way, fixed mindsets and growth mindsets are not so separated from each other as they seem at first glance.
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Great to know what you are reading…I am adding these books in my reading list this year…yeah, you can say, after thinking deeply, at one time or the other both mindsets merge or meet or you can’t escape fixed mindset forever in your life…but it all depends on your perception… thanks a lot for your precious comment…