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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol Dweck's 2006 book translating four decades of research into popular form — the work that introduced fixed and growth mindsets to a global audience and became the reference text for applications of the framework to every domain, now including AI.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, published in 2006 by Random House, is the book that brought Carol Dweck's research program into mainstream awareness. Drawing on decades of experimental studies, the book articulated the distinction between fixed and growth mindsets in accessible terms and demonstrated its application across educational achievement, athletic performance, relationships, business leadership, and parenting. The book became a foundational text for motivation research in popular form, and its concepts have been adopted — with varying fidelity — by educational systems, organizations, and coaching institutions worldwide. The Dweck volume treats Mindset as the point of entry to the broader research program and the source of the conceptual vocabulary — growth mindset, fixed mindset, process praise, the power of yet — that the AI-era extension of the framework requires.
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The book's organization is structural: