{"id":476,"date":"2007-04-02T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/04\/02\/effort-effec\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:07","slug":"effort-effec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/04\/02\/effort-effec\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Effort Effect&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Kawasaki posted this item a couple of weeks ago, but I only recently came across it. The article he links to is as good as he says it is. I&#8217;ve also ordered the book. This kind of research strikes a chord with me. It&#8217;s something we all need to consider, especially those who are managing people in our workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to his original post:  <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/guykawasaki\/Gypm\/~3\/101811192\/the_effort_effe.html\">&quot;The Effort Effect&quot;<\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\/Mindset.jpg?resize=160%2C239\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" width=\"160\" alt=\"Mindset.jpg\"align=\"right\"   style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><br \/>And here&#8217;s a snippet from his post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordalumni.org\/news\/magazine\/2007\/marapr\/features\/dweck.html\">The Effort Effect<\/a>. This is an article about Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. It examines her thirty-year study of why some some people excel and others don\u2019t. (Hint: the answer is not \u2018God-given talent.\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>The article postulates that people have two kinds of mindsets: growth or fixed. People with the growth mindset view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving. People with a fixed mindset believe that they are \u2018set\u2019 as either good or bad. The issue is that the good ones believe they don\u2019t have to work hard, and the bad ones believe that working hard won\u2019t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>She recently released a book called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck%2Fdp%2F1400062756%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1173932791%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=guykawasakico-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Mindset: The New Psychology of Success<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=guykawasakico-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>. I have not yet read it, but I ordered it as soon as I read this article. I can\u2019t imagine not liking it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\">How to Change the World<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Kawasaki posted this item a couple of weeks ago, but I only recently came across it. The article he links to is as good as he says it is. I&#8217;ve also ordered the book. This kind of research strikes a chord with me. It&#8217;s something we all need to consider, especially those who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-7G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}