Your Mindset Matters!

Mindsets matter because they shape the way we view the world, and hence the way we interact with it.Our mindsets grow out of the experiences we have. Whether we would label an experience positive or negative, each experience adds to the filters we form that define what we absorb of subsequent experiences. Our mindsets sit in the background – frequently unseen and unexamined. And it is our mindsets that determine our behaviour.When we make our mindsets conscious – by bringing them to the foreground – we begin to have choices about how we interact with the world and can more purposefully choose to be the person we want to be, to do the things we want to do, in order to have the results we want to have.

‘What individuals believe about the concept of ability is more important than ‘ability’ itself.’

Professor Carol Dweck – Stanford University

‘‘Nurturing ‘intrinsic’ motivation rather than ‘extrinsic’ should be the focus of educators. If a

person is engaged in some activity for reasons of intrinsic motivation and if he/she begins to

receive the external reward, money, for performing the activity, the degree to which

he/she is intrinsically motivated to perform the activity decreases.’’

Edward Deci, 1971

At West Lakes Academy we’re changing our mind-set!

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