This book was recommended to me by an early childhood educator as a helpful tool to teach and model to my children how to have a growth mindset. It took me a long time to read, not because it was dense reading, but because I was actively trying to find my own fixed mindsets (and ones around me) and turn them into growth mindsets. (You have to do it to teach it!)

The most helpful part of the book was at the end where she spelled out specific growth mindset steps. One suggestion was to ask at the dinner table each night questions like "what did you learn today?" and "what mistake did you make today that taught you something?" and (when it's your turn to share) lead into a story of your own experience that day, dramatically describing your mistake, building up the mystery of the problem, and finally revealing the solution that finally worked! It sounds easy in theory, but it takes some thinking. I've become acutely aware of mindset, mistakes, problem solving and how I'm going to do some amazing storytelling at dinner time. The point of it all is to get kids interested in the problem solving process, and to become aware of when they're doing it.

The author uses a lot of real world examples, but her repeated praise of NY Yankee players was a bit much for me to take.