The material presented by Dweck was very interesting and concerning to me. After reading, I made several inferences about my learning styles. The one theory on intelligence that struck me the most was the malleable intelligence. As much as I want to say that I have acquired this learning style, I find some aspects of my intelligence in an "entity theory". I feel successful after completing anything, whether it be a one hundred page story in fine print or a page of addition and subtraction. However, I do appreciate a challenge and feel much more rewarded if it entails a vast amount of thinking.
I believe that teachers encourage more of a malleable intelligence. Education is a constant upgrade. The material gets harder, forcing you to step outside a comfort zone, thus think intellectually. At points in earlier education, however, "busy work" was assigned much more often encouraging a fixed intelligence.
As I have (hopefully) matured, I know that I am more atttracted to learning goals rather than performance goals. In an ever-changing society, there is so much to keep up with and no time to be static with information. We must constantly be acquiring intelligence just to keep up. For the mere fact that I will also be completely on my own soon, I need to be forming learning goals to suceed in a business corporated world.
Overall, I find Dweck's viewpoints to be all well researched. Her theories of intelligence are very reinforcing with various studies. However, it is difficult to pick one theory of intelligence for yourself because of the way she disregards the entity theory. In my opinion, everyone will be drawn to take the route of saying they are a product of the incremental theory, when in reality too many are the latter.
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When you say that she "disregards" the entity theory, what do you mean? What would you say is her goal in this book?
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