"Growth" vs. "Fixed" Mindsets

I watched the podcast produced by Stanford University entitled, " 'Growth' vs. 'Fixed' Mindsets in Learning". In this podcast, the argument is made that some students have the idea that their intelligence is "fixed" or that they can't improve their intelligence with practice. Some students think opposite of this. They think that their minds are expandable and can "grow". The beliefs that students have about their abilities tend to influence which activities they participate in and how they participate.
A study was done which involved students attending workshops that dealt with the "growth" idea and study skills and another set of workshops dealing with only the study skills. The students who attended just the study skills workshops did not really improve much in the classroom but the students who attended the study skills workshops and received the idea that their minds can grow did improve in the classroom. Students learned to compare their brains to a muscle that gets stronger with use. The skills the students learned in the growth mindset workshops caused such an improvement in the students' schoolwork that their teachers were able to tell a difference. The presenter of this information in the podcast then relates all of this information to race car driving and life in the business world. With both of these scenarios, people must learn to change and adapt and accept new ideas. Students with the growth mindset are able to flourish in these situations but students with the fixed mindset just feel inferior.
I can see this information being helpful in the classroom because if a student has the "fixed" mindset, they are not going to succeed and may eventually fall behind the other students. As a teacher, I should be continually on the lookout for which types of mindsets are in my class and how to help the students with the fixed mindsets see that their mind isn't just an unchanging object. I need to be able to encourage students to do better and to expand their minds. I also need to provide opportunities for them to stretch their brains and make their brains work without them really realizing that they are growing their brains. There are many ways that their brains can be stretched and strengthened and I will have to be able to employ several methods to help my class's brains grow and grow.