Insides the shadows of an incremental theorist : the detrimental side of the growth mindset

• Main Author: Toh, Xin Pei
• Other Authors: Lee Kai Chung, Albert
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74390
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Have we as children not heard of our mother’s famous mantra, “you did not do well because you did not try hard enough”? Or of our friend’s willow like whisper, “do not give up, even Thomas Edison merely found 10,000 ways that would not work”. Such sentences are indicative of the merits of effort in...