“Confronting Deficiencies: A belief in fixed intelligence also makes people less willing to admit to errors or to confront and remedy their deficiencies in school, at work and in their social relationships.
In a study published in 1999 of 168 freshman entering the University of Hong Kong, three colleagues and I found that students with a growth mind-set who scored poorly on their English proficiency exam were far more inclined to take a remedial English course than were low-scoring students with a fixed mind-set.
The students with a stagnant view of intelligence were presumably unwilling to admit to their deficit and thus passed up the opportunity to correct it” (Carol S. Dweck, Scientific American Mind - November 28, 2007).
This passage shows how the growth mindset students are willing to admit their failure, and used it as motivation to try again, and work harder. Confronting deficiencies means to face the problem, and the fixed mindset people did everything except that.
They quit because they did not want to admit to the problem, they thought the problem was that they just were not smart enough, so the only option was to give up. The students with a growth mindset wanted to learn more and took this failure as an opportunity to improve.
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