Yoshino, Shiho: Negative-Maintaining Growth Mindset: How Innately Positive Individuals Construct a Superior Problem-Solving Brain in the Real World

This paper proposes the Negative-Maintaining Growth Mindset (NM-GM) Model, an integrative framework that extends Carol S. Dweck’s growth mindset theory. Drawing on the author’s introspective analysis, the model illustrates how individuals with an innately extreme positive disposition can develop a robust problem-solving architecture by intentionally maintaining negative awareness and rapidly converting it into seeds of possibility. The author describes a personal trajectory beginning with pure p