Growth Mindset Quiz

Desires to ‘arrive’ at a final destination of being ‘good enough’

Views mastery as a continuous and evolving journey

Gives up easily when faced with obstacles

Persists in the face of setbacks

Takes criticism personally and gets defensive

Learns from criticism and sees it as constructive

Ignores useful critical feedback

Uses feedback as a guide for improvement

Views effort as fruitless or worse if not immediately successful

Understands that effort is a path to mastery and improvement

Believes that talents alone should lead to success without effort

Knows that effort and hard work enhance existing abilities

Believes that talents and abilities are fixed traits

Believes that abilities and intelligence can be developed

Often feels the need to prove oneself repeatedly

Focuses on learning and growing over just looking smart

Feels threatened by the success of others

Finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others

Views peers as competitors rather than allies

Celebrates peer achievements and shares in their success

Struggles with change and prefers the status quo

Embraces change as a chance to improve and innovate

Resists new ideas and clings to traditional methods without question

Is open to new ideas and approaches, and willing to experiment

Sets safe goals that ensure success to maintain self-image

Sets challenging and realistic goals that foster growth

Avoids setting high or challenging goals due to fear of not achieving them

Sees ambitious goals as opportunities to stretch abilities

Sees failure as a limit of their abilities and an identity crisis

Considers failure a necessary step towards learning and developing

Tries to hide failures to protect their self-image

Openly acknowledges and shares failures as growth experiences

Desires to ‘arrive’ at a final destination of being ‘good enough’

Views mastery as a continuous and evolving journey

Has a static view of success and mastery with no further development

Believes there is always room to grow and further develop skills

Behaves passively towards others and wants to please them

Approaches others proactively in order to learn transparently and together

Hides true thoughts and feelings from others to maintain control and power

Makes courageous contributions and takes responsibility even though this shows vulnerability