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Carol Dweck talks about how students think that their intelligence is a fixed trait. She says that some students want to do activities that will show that they are smart. In her interview she talks about an 8 session workshop. A group of students were picked to have both the study skill and a growth mind set workshop while another group got just study skills. The students who got just the study skills had grades that continued to decline. The students who received the workshop learned that their mind is like a muscle and it grows as you use it.
At the end of the semester there was significant rebound in the students that were in the growth mind set workshop. Teachers could even pick out which students were in the workshop and which ones weren't although they did not know that there were two groups.
In the interview she talks about a race car driver that contacted her to talk about growth mind set. He talked with her about how in racing you are bound to make a mistake or get in a tough spot and without growth mind set you would not be able to handle the tough situations.