This comment is both black and white, negative, and reductive.<p>How do you measure a growth mindset? Well, we could look at Dweck&#x27;s research with school children, where kids exposed to the concept that the brain is a muscle score markedly better than the control groups. [1]<p>Your views on failure suggest you have either forgotten childhood, or have a warped perspective on it: all kids do is fail, over and over, until they get the hang of things. We scrape our knees, our towers of blocks fall down, we can&#x27;t get the puzzle pieces into the holes and constantly misidentify letters and numbers. To say that you repeat failure a couple of times and &#x27;you&#x27;re either dead or on your way there&#x27; is bleak and also wrong.<p>What Dweck&#x27;s research shows is that children who are praised for their efforts fare better than those who are praised on being innately smart. You seem fixated on success being a zero-sum game. Like, whether a startup succeeds or fails. Dweck isn&#x27;t guaranteeing that with positive thinking, you can achieve anything. It&#x27;s not so black and white. The idea is that with the proper mindset, people can achieve a whole lot more than society might otherwise make them believe – and for so many people (children especially), that can be a life-changing realization.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ascd.org&#x2F;publications&#x2F;educational-leadership&#x2F;oct07&#x2F;vol65&#x2F;num02&#x2F;The-Perils-and-Promises-of-Praise.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ascd.org&#x2F;publications&#x2F;educational-leadership&#x2F;oct0...</a>