The 7 Best Business Biographies of All Time, Rated by CEOs

The 7 Best Business Biographies of All Time, Rated by CEOs

Want to learn how to be successful at business? Some of the best lessons come from business biographies, which are written about the business titans of our time. Here’s our carefully researched list of the top 7 business biographies of all time. To compose this list, we used quantitative criteria such as: High-quality recommendations from business leaders like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett Number of weeks on bestseller lists like the New York Times Common perception and ratings by common readers, from networks like Amazon and Goodreads The novelty and usefulness of the lessons learned

How to Build Healthy Friendships: Get a Growth Mindset

How to Build Healthy Friendships: Get a Growth Mindset

What is the secret to developing healthy friendships? What if you’re shy? What if there are problems in your friendship–is it a lost cause? Should you throw in the towel? The secret to healthy friendships is the secret to healthy relationships in general: having a growth mindset. We’ll cover how a growth mindset can help you create and maintain healthy friendships and help you deal with your shyness.

How to Deal with Failure—What CEOs and NASA Do That You Don’t

How to Deal with Failure—What CEOs and NASA Do That You Don’t

How to deal with failure is a crucial lesson, but we’re not always taught the most productive or effective ways. Mindset drives how people define and cope with failure. For people with a fixed mindset, failure is an identity that they fear and try to avoid, rather than something that happens. To learn how to deal with failure, you need to change your mindset. We’ll cover Carol Dweck’s advice for dealing with failure.

One Cause of Bullying: A Fixed Mindset in Kids

One Cause of Bullying: A Fixed Mindset in Kids

Experiencing rejection is painful for an adult, but imagine how it feels to a child. Children experience rejection daily in schools. Starting in grade school, some kids are victimized, attacked, or ridiculed. Ongoing bullying makes some children’s lives a nightmare and can evolve into years of depression and anger. What are the causes of bullying? Is the cause of bullying a fixed mindset? We’ll cover some causes of bullying, in schools particularly, and why a fixed mindset may be partially to blame.

How to Cope with Rejection? A Growth Mindset Can Help

How to Cope with Rejection? A Growth Mindset Can Help

We all experience rejection in our lives, whether it be in a relationship, after a job interview, or in a social situation. Coping with rejection can be difficult: What’s the best mindset for learning how to cope with rejection? Whether you have a fixed or growth mindset affects the course of your personal relationships. Mindset helps explain: Why people work against their own interests in relationships Why relationships devolve into warfare Why some relationships succeed and others don’t We’ll cover how having a growth mindset helps you cope better with problems in your relationship and learn how to cope with

How to Overcome Fear of Failure—A Growth Mindset Is Critical

How to Overcome Fear of Failure—A Growth Mindset Is Critical

In general, in the fixed mindset world, success is about proving to yourself and others that you’re smart and talented. It’s about validation. If you fail, it means you’re not smart or talented, therefore failure is intolerable. If you have this mindset, it’s hard to learn how to overcome fear of failure. We’ll cover Carol Dweck’s advice for overcoming fear of failure and discuss why fear of failure is holding you back.

Why the Value of Hard Work is More Critical than Ever

Why the Value of Hard Work is More Critical than Ever

To instill in children the value of hard work, we teach them such stories as “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Little Engine That Could.”  The lesson is to keep trying and you’ll succeed: Slow and steady wins the race. But those with fixed mindsets take away a different lesson: Hard work is for those who lack talent. They’d rather be the faster, more talented hare than the tortoise, who only succeeded because the hare messed up. A smarter hare would beat a no-talent tortoise. We’ll cover why fewer and fewer people believe in the value of hard work,

“False” Growth Mindset—Dweck Shares 4 Common Misconceptions

“False” Growth Mindset—Dweck Shares 4 Common Misconceptions

What is a “false” growth mindset? Is it possible that you think you have a growth mindset when in reality, you’ve actually embraced a mindset that’s causing you (and your children or students) harm? We’ll cover the common misconceptions that result in a “false” growth mindset and look at how to create an authentic growth mindset.

Myth of Effortless Perfection—A Fixed Mindset Holds You Back

Myth of Effortless Perfection—A Fixed Mindset Holds You Back

Many children, especially young girls, are taught that their value lies in their perfection, and that this perfection shouldn’t take any effort. But effortless perfection is a myth, and believing in the need to demonstrate effortless perfection is a dangerous mindset. We’ll cover Carol Dweck’s growth and fixed mindsets and why effortless perfection is a myth.