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The focus that Alfie Kohn presents in the article, “The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system” published by SALON on Sunday, August 16th 2015, is based on the flaws of the “Growth Mindset” and how it should be implemented or questioned. Kohn explains how the issues with growth mindset is that students are still distracted by what grade there getting instead of what they are doing to either get the grade or do better. Although, Kohn believes that Growth Mindset is there only to help “fix the students” instead of changing the school systems curriculum, Carol Dweck the Author of “Carol Dweck Revisits Growth Mindset” researched how those who adopt a growth mindset, helps them [students] have better self-esteem when it comes to approaching challenging idea. It is said that the more you believe you can do it and surpass a bump in the road the more you are susceptible to the idea that appraisal through approval of effort works more than having a “fixed mindset” and praising intelligence. Kohn’s major issue with Dweck’s research is that too much importance on performance can drown out the learning prosses and learning can be also affected by social environments around and in school.

In Kohn’s article, he gives an example that explains how students whose self-worth and esteem is measured by their performance face the chance of failing and according to this study those who do adopt a growth mindset, give themselves more of an excuse for failing at something, than those with the “dreaded” fixed mindset. The study calls it “self-handicapping.”

*courtesy of Urban Dictionary

That's right. How many guys on your team once ate a Kodiak bear? No less with three, count 'em, three hands. 

Well, it seems like he has three hands most of the time. He's that good. 

Just trying to give the Flyers a little mojo :D