Why people recommend it
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck is a popular psychology book that explores how individuals' underlying beliefs about their abilities profoundly influence their success, resilience, and personal growth. The hosts of ChooseFI discussed reading the book to understand the core psychological distinction between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Ben Aldridge praised the volume on Modern Wisdom as one of his favorite books of all time, highlighting the incredible utility of Dweck's framework for personal development. Tom Bilyeu went even further on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, calling it the most important book in the English language and describing it as the single best piece of advice he could offer for transforming one's life. Additional endorsements came from Benjamin Hardy on Modern Wisdom and Susanna Halonen, who referenced the work while discussing the psychology of resilience. Moreover, Paul C. Brunson referenced Dweck's psychological concepts on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to analyze closed-minded and open-minded behaviors. Across these various shows, guests and hosts consistently underscored how adopting a growth-oriented perspective can fundamentally alter human potential, achievement, and the ability to learn from setbacks.
Who recommended it
- Andrew Huberman Discussed
- Tom Bilyeu Recommended
- Paul C. Brunson Discussed
- Steven Dubner Discussed
- Nir Eyal Discussed
- James Smith Discussed
- Ben Aldridge Recommended
- Steven Kotler Discussed
- Benjamin Hardy Recommended
- Susanna Halonen Recommended
Andrew Huberman — 3 mentions
“Then my colleague Carol Dweck, also in the Psychology Department at Stanford, most famously known for her work on mindset, did an experiment in which she essentially asked whether or not tenacity and willpower are limited as a sort of resource and also whether or not they’re linked to glucose availability, fuel, in the brain and body.”
“Growth mindset is the incredible discovery and research papers from my colleague Dr. Carol Dweck in the psychology department at Stanford. And there are others, such as David Yeager at the University of Texas Austin, who have leveraged the so-called growth mindset as a tool that young people and adults alike can use in order to get better at anything.”
“Many people are familiar with Carol Dweck's concept of growth mindset, which suggests that instead of seeing ourselves as not proficient at something, we should think of it as not being proficient yet and that we are on a journey to proficiency.”
Tom Bilyeu — 3 mentions
“to read the book mindset ... truly it's the most important book in the english language”
“to read the book mindset oh nice that will change your life if you read it and do it and live accordingly truly it's the most important book in the english language”
“and firstly Carol Dweck had not written her book mindset at that point so I didn't have the words growth mindset fixed mindset”
Paul C. Brunson — 1 mention
“Carol dwick talks about this in her book mindset we have closed-minded open-minded those are the closed-minded”
Steven Dubner — 1 mention
“There was some multi-syllabic, multi-word phrase, and I believe she had to come up with some terminology when she was writing her first, last, only, at least for now, popular book for a lay audience and you know implicit theories of intelligence. And you know incremental versus whatever, these were not going to fly, and so 'growth mindset' ended up”
Nir Eyal — 1 mention
“And Carol Dweck, who you might know from she's probably been on your show, from her book Mindset, she decided to replicate these studies.”
James Smith — 1 mention
“but i think it's just been one of those things where carol dweck in her book mindset talks about a fixed mindset um and an open mindset”
Ben Aldridge — 1 mention
“yes yes mindset is one of my favorite books of all time i think it's an unbelievably useful concept the idea that there's a growth mindset and a fixed mindset”
Steven Kotler — 1 mention
“when carol dweck gets stamford's mindset she means attitude towards learning”
Benjamin Hardy — 1 mention
“I've read Carol Dweck's mindset and thought they're all do acts work is some of the best in psychology”
Susanna Halonen — 1 mention
“and when I talk about resilience I talk a lot about growth mindset by Carol Drac have you heard of that”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 4
“So this is the essence of growth mindset long before Carol Dweck coined the phrase 'growth mindset.'”
“The study I'd like to briefly discuss exemplifies the groundwork that led to the discovery of growth mindset, authored by Dr. Carol Dweck and her colleague Claudia Mueller. The title of this important paper is 'Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance.' This finding should be surprising: praise for intelligence can indeed undermine motivation and performance.”
“I've been reading and spending a lot of time looking at this very famous book called mindset by Carol dweck and it strikes me as I'm reading that that in the concept that she's highlighting is this idea fixed mindset versus growth mindset”
“I read mindset by Carol dweck I read uh uh quit like a millionaire by Bryce and Christy”
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Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and so last year one of the probably the best books I read was mindset by Carol dweck”
“I read mindset by Carol dweck”
“We have mindsets about various things, including stress, intelligence (as shown in Carol Dweck's work), food, and medicine. These are essentially core beliefs or assumptions that shape and orient our thinking and actions.”