Why teach soft skills and growth mindset?
What are the soft skills?
These are the attributes that individuals need to handle life successfully on a day to day basis. Sociologists refer to them as the EQ: Emotional Intelligence Quotient. While there is no one complete set of soft skills, some of the more frequently cited ones are: teamwork and collaboration, communication skills, flexibility, problem solving, perseverance, and decision making.
Research by the respected Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in the U.S. found high emotional intelligence (EI) is a stronger predictor of success than IQ. The Carnegie Institute of Technology carried out research that showed that 85% of success was due to skills in “human engineering”, personality, and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. They found that only 15% was due to technical ability. In other words people skills or skills highly related to emotional intelligence were crucial skills.
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset?
A fixed mindset assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can’t change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled. A growth mindset, on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.
After studying the behavior of thousands of children, Dr. Dweck coined the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. Dr. Dweck found that when students believe they can get smarter, they understand that effort makes them stronger.
What are the soft skills?
These are the attributes that individuals need to handle life successfully on a day to day basis. Sociologists refer to them as the EQ: Emotional Intelligence Quotient. While there is no one complete set of soft skills, some of the more frequently cited ones are: teamwork and collaboration, communication skills, flexibility, problem solving, perseverance, and decision making.
Research by the respected Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in the U.S. found high emotional intelligence (EI) is a stronger predictor of success than IQ. The Carnegie Institute of Technology carried out research that showed that 85% of success was due to skills in “human engineering”, personality, and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. They found that only 15% was due to technical ability. In other words people skills or skills highly related to emotional intelligence were crucial skills.
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset?
A fixed mindset assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can’t change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled. A growth mindset, on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.
After studying the behavior of thousands of children, Dr. Dweck coined the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. Dr. Dweck found that when students believe they can get smarter, they understand that effort makes them stronger.
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