Govindarajan and Gupta (2001) discuss the concept of mindset and state that mindset is
“also referred to as cognitive schema, mental maps, or paradigms, and mindset can be
traced to the research of cognitive psychologists who have addressed the question of how
people make sense of the world in which they interact.”
A growth mindset is an important condition for change. People with fixed mindsets see their capabilities as unchangeable, natural talents that can’t be developed. Those with growth mindsets view their capabilities as a potential to be developed.