“Carved in stone”
The metaphor: “Carved in stone” denotes the inborn inelasticity of human qualities. The carved-in-stone stance conjectures that traits are unyielding, so they cannot be transformed. Consequently, the outlook progressively cultivates a fixed mindset.
“One-person religion”
Dweck claims, “My husband says that he used to feel this way, that he wanted to be the god of a one-person (his partner’s) religion.” The “one-person” religion signifies a fixed mind-set which would make him venerate his lover incessantly. As a result of such a mindset, her husband would place the lover of a pedestal (which necessitates dwelling on her flawlessness) instead of heartening her to rise above the pedestal by defying her inadequacies.
The “CEO disease”
Dweck expounds, “Lee Iacocca had a bad case of it. After his initial success as head of Chrysler Motors, Iacocca looked remarkably like our four-year-olds with the fixed mindset. He kept bringing out the same car models over and over with only superficial changes. Unfortunately, they were models no one wanted anymore. Meanwhile, Japanese companies were completely rethinking what cars should look like and how they should run. We know how this turned out. The Japanese cars rapidly swept the market.” Lee Lacocca portrays the “CEO disease” because he failed to get out of the comfort zone of his triumph. Conceivably, he was petrified that if he revamped the models, based on the marketplace and technological inclinations, his pedestal triumph would be susceptible. “The CEO disease” emboldens prosperous people to clasp a fixed mindset. Subsequently, they overlook learning and this terminates in non-learning-linked catastrophe.
“Superman,” “God in person,” “Jesus in tennis shoes”
These religious metaphors have been prevalently used to allude to Michael Jordan due to his competence in Tennis. Although Michael Jordan does not sanction the allegories, owing to his growth mindset, the descriptions indicate that people who employ them regard Michael Jordan to be a supernatural being who is analogous to Jesus.
