Episode-by-episode discussion of Mindset by Carol S. Dweck — fixed versus growth, and how one belief shapes every challenge you meet. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of Atomic Podcasts.
8 episodes listed below. All 9 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The series opener. Carol Dweck spent decades proving that one quiet belief — whether ability is fixed or can grow — shapes school, work, love and resilience more than talent ever does. The foundation of everything that follows.
What the two mindsets actually feel like from the inside. Why a fixed mindset turns every challenge into a verdict on your worth, and why a growth mindset can take the same failure as information.
Dweck dismantles the myth of the natural. What the research says about ability, effort and achievement, and why praising a child's intelligence reliably makes them more fragile, not less.
Mindset in sport. Michael Jordan cut from his school team, Billie Jean King on what character is, and the pattern Dweck finds in athletes who keep getting better when everyone expected a plateau.
Mindset in business. The fixed-mindset leader who needs to be the smartest person in the room, the growth-mindset leader who builds one, and the corporate collapses Dweck traces back to the difference.
Mindset in relationships. The belief that a good match should feel easy, what it does to couples the first time something is hard, and why rejection lands so differently depending on the mindset you carry.
For parents, teachers and coaches: the specific words that install a fixed mindset without anyone intending it, and the concrete alternatives Dweck has tested in real classrooms.
The season finale. Mindsets are beliefs, and beliefs can be changed — Dweck's four-step workshop for catching the fixed-mindset voice, talking back to it, and making the shift stick.
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