Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Loy Machedo’s Book Review
Lately, I have become a skeptic.
Whenever I notice a book has tons and tons of recommendations and positive reviews, I start getting doubtful.
I ask myself, is this another garbage like “The Secret” which makes you believe you can get cash being sent through your mail just because you have visualized it, given the universe a powerful affirmation and now attracting the money through your irresistible brain waves? Or is another heaped piece of utter pseudoscience bullshit like “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle?
So why do I hate these kinds of books & such authors?
These hippy books is that they promote a ‘feel-good’ phenomenon giving the reader a belief that they are in control of their destiny,
These books love to empower useless individuals giving them a false sense of security and
These unproven statements in such books give otherwise ordinary people extraordinary hope. And mind you ‘HOPE’ is NOT a strategy.
So coming to Carol Dweck’s book Mindset.
Let me break it down to what I like, what I didn’t like and finally what did I think of the book as a whole.
WHAT DID I LIKE
– The concept of Growth Mindset
– The examples in the first 50% of the book to support what the author states
– The summary in the end of each chapter
WHAT DID I NOT LIKE ABOUT THIS BOOK
– The book could have been reduced to 40% of its size.
– Tons of repetitive content
– Most of the time you will end up skipping paragraphs after paragraphs because the author is just going on a tangent.
– Lots of indirect advertisement & testimonials to promote the authors “Brainology” services.
THE MINDSET: MOMENT OF TRUTH
The premise of the entire book is simply this:
A) Some people have a fixed mindset – You can never change.
B) Some people have a growth mindset – You can learn new skills.
C) Fixed mindset is bad
D) Growth mindset is good.
E) Example to prove Fixed Mindset.
F) Example to prove Growth Mindset.
Repeat this same format 100 times through the book.
The book is interesting. However, not life-changing.
I would be recommending reading the authors articles online instead of buying this long-drawn-out book.
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