Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies and input from others) have a growth mindset (Dweck 2012). They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). This is because they worry less about looking smart and they put more energy into learning.
Changing our relationship to stress by introducing the stress as enhancing mindset (SEM: Crum, Salovey & Achor 2013). SEM produces sharper increases in positive affect, heightened attentional bias towards positive stimuli, and greater cognitive flexibility, whereas a stress-is-debilitating (SBM) mindset produces worse cognitive, affective and performance related outcomes.
The core of the Mindset module will focus on developing a growth and stress enhancing mindset to foster the continuous
desire to learn and improve as well as on showing
how to utilise stress as an ally to performance and positive mental health.