Researchers have found that working hard to learn new things makes brains smarter and stronger, and people with a growth mindset are more willing to work hard, make mistakes and thus learn new skills; they also found that students can learn to choose a growth mindset over a fixed mindset.

Researchers have found that embracing challenges helps form connections in the brain that can make you smarter and lead to a healthy mindset called a growth mindset; their research was based on cells in the brain called neurons that are connected to one another and send signals by axons.

There is one kind of mindset, growth mindset, that has been shown to increase students' skills and improve grades in contrast to another mindset, called a fixed mindset; further research is needed to determine how students can change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

There are two basic kinds of mindsets that will determine how well a student performs in school: growth and fixed; students' mindsets are relatively flexible during elementary school, but become fixed on labels like dumb and smart as students grow older.

by marveling at the number of connections in one's brain, describing the difference between growth and fixed mindsets, and suggesting that math is the main subject that requires students to use a growth mindset for success

by demonstrating how neural connections in the brain work, emphasizing that grades are not as important as students think they are, and describing specific strategies that students should use to develop a growth mindset

by describing how new challenges are like exercise to the brain, describing the unique contributions of Dr. Carol Dweck to the field of psychology, and discussing how babies are the best at using a growth mindset

by explaining how learning new things affects the brain, contrasting the way people with different mindsets approach new learning challenges, and discussing how it is possible to change one's mindset

by showing them that the first steps to changing their mindset is changing their actions

by showing them that having a growth mindset will help develop their neurons

by showing them how their beliefs about learning affect how successful they are at handling challenges

by showing them that students with both mindsets will encounter difficult problems