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Session 5: Mindset and attitudes towards sport and learning

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This diagram compares a Fixed Mindset with a Growth Mindset. A fixed mindset believes that sporting ability is static and that it leads to a desire to look competent and a tendency to: avoid challenges; give up easily; see effort as fruitless; ignore negative feedback; and feel threatened by the success of others. As a result, they achieve less than their full potential and all this confirms to them that this is predetermined. A growth mindset believes that sporting ability can be developed, which leads to a desire to learn and a tendency to: embrace challenges; persist in the face of setbacks; see effort as the path to mastery; learn from criticism; and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others. As a result, the reach ever-higher levels of achievement and this reinforces their belief in free-will.

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