New research on neuroplasticity and brain growth has shown that the brain remains plastic throughout our entire lives. Consequently, research has turned to explore the consequences of believing your brain can grow (growth mindset) or not (fixed mindset) on an individual's life, and specifically on their academic success. A growth mindset can increase an individual's effort, willingness to embrace challenges and make mistakes, and ability to recover from failures. Mindsets can be shifted towards a growth mindset through both implicit and explicit mindset education. This paper explores the implications of a growth or fixed mindset, the current research surrounding mindsets, and a study on the effectiveness of an adapted explicit mindset intervention. The hypothesis of the study was that the treatment group would display a mindset shift from fixed to growth. The study was conducted in an art classroom at a middle-to-upper class high school in Colorado. The students' mindsets were assessed using an online questionnaire given at the beginning of class. The treatment group received four ten-minute mindset lessons explaining the concept of neuroplasticity and growth mindset. A post-questionnaire was then given to the comparison and treatment groups to determine if there was a mindset shift. The findings support the hypothesis, suggesting that the explicit mindset lessons were successful in shifting the treatment group's mindset towards growth.