ABSTRACT
Carol Dweck is credited with deepening our understanding of mindsets. Dweck suggested that people take cues from the outside world about their mindsets. First, athletes with a growth mindset derive pleasure from practice, from rehearsing for the big performance. Second, they see their setbacks as arrows, pointing them toward weak areas in order to improve. Goal orientation is one of those variables that affects motivation. The distinction between orientations is tricky because the author brain wants to compartmentalize these into positive and negative behaviors. The tightrope the people walk every day is being the one who encourages every student, without becoming the one they rely on for validation.
