I have not come across any of Carol Dwecks work regarding growth mindset up until now, although I had an idea regarding this subject from watching other motivational speakers, to my knowledge it is all to do with the mind, and if used correctly the mind is an extremely powerful tool. Throughout my years of learning I have found that to build motivation to do something, one must actually DO. Instead of overthinking tasks to be done for school, college, work etc... One must actually just start doing what they intend to do instead of procrastinating, in the process of doing, one will learn and feel productive, as a result of such great fulfilling feeling, one will want to continue to DO more.
JUST DO IT!
When it comes to failure and those who may be afraid of failure, in my opinion fear of failure is the best motivational tool for the mind, and if someone is simply not interested in a certain aspect of learning, the mind can be tuned to which they can associate what they dread to learn with things they are actually interested in. E.g. If a science student is not interested in science, but is an animal lover, a way to help learn science is if that person learns about the real biological reason they might find animals cute, which is simply chemicals in the brain which we call emotions, this will help the person understand why they have love for animals and will want to continue learning about other things they are interested in but in a more scientific manner.
So in conclusion, I find growth mindset a powerful tool for learning as it will eventually motivate those with no interest as well as those with interest.
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