Rudolfo Mendoza-Denton, an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, pondered why so many of his students were jeopardizing their grades by missing class. He had encouraged them to adopt an “incremental” rather than a “fixed” view of their abilities, and expected this understanding to result in good class attendance, among other behaviors. A fixed view absolves a person of responsibility for his actions, indicating that failure is something he couldn’t avoid, a mindset that saps motivation. An incremental view indicates that our fate is in our own hands, something we grow and nurture. Surprisingly, this idea can be threatening.Read the full article here: Why Do We Sabotage Our Success?