A book on pride and humility

Bart recommended a book that helped him play tennis better when the time came.

I had seen articles about it before and had read condensed guides to a couple of Dweck’s studies so I put it up high on the priority list and got the book.  It seems like one of the most interesting looks at pride and humility that I have seen.  She calls pride the “fixed mindset” and associates it with the belief/fear that your abilities, talents, personality traits are fixed.  The flip side is the belief that growth comes through effort in pretty much every endeavor, which she calls the “growth mindset.”  The meat comes as you go through story after story of the fixed mindset crippling people in terms of growth and performance and also crippling their characters while the growth mindset leads to a steady stream of remarkable stories.  I’m only half way through, but it’s been a neat read.  Mindset, the New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.