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All statements about growth mindset

41 statements about growth mindset in 18 sources, by upload date.

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2023

2022

  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali calls Carol Dweck's Mindset, on fixed versus growth mindset, a good but dense, academic and sometimes dry book, and says most of its value comes from the Shortform summary or his Book Club video. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-10-17 · 8 Evidence-Based Tips that Helped Me Find Love — Ali says that in a life partner we want someone loyal, kind, emotionally stable, a good communicator with a growth mindset, someone to grow and make hard decisions with, qualities rarely on dating checklists. — 00:02:40

2021

  • 2021-03-31 · How to Beat Procrastination — Ali likens self versus ego to growth versus fixed mindset: with a fixed mindset negative feedback damages the ego, while with a growth mindset failing is part of improving over time. — 00:06:43
  • 2021-06-13 · 8 Surprising Habits That Made Me A Millionaire — Ali's fourth habit, the growth mindset, which he thinks of as "everything is figureoutable": instead of "I don't know how to do it, therefore I can't", think "I don't know how, but I've got the internet and can figure it out". — 00:04:22
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Carol Dweck (quoted): Carol Dweck gave 10-year-olds problems slightly too hard for them: some who failed were devastated, others said things like "I love a challenge"; she puts the difference down to mindset. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Carol Dweck (quoted): Carol Dweck's Mindset contrasts the fixed mindset, that abilities such as intelligence are innate and hard to change, with the growth mindset, that everything is a skill that can be learned and improved. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Ali accepts there is raw talent, as some people sing better by default, but says a growth mindset means accepting there is huge room for improvement in almost anything we put our minds to. — 00:00:47
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Ali: After Ali explained the growth mindset, a friend at medical school who feared looking dumb chose to see wrong answers in anatomy class as a learning opportunity; nobody cared, and she learned a lot more. — 00:01:46
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Carol Dweck (quoted): Mindset says that in society, especially among people with a fixed mindset, the mark of a genius is doing things without effort, so people who must put in effort feel they are doing it wrong. — 00:02:15
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — recommendation: Ali endorses Mindset's reframing of effort: effort is not a bad thing, and in learning and studying, the more effort the brain puts in, the more likely the information is to stick. — 00:03:25
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Ali realised he had approached difficult conversations with his team with a fixed mindset: he was not a good manager at them because he put no effort into them, not because they did not come effortlessly. — 00:04:53
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Carol Dweck (quoted): Mindset presents the growth mindset as a gradual, ongoing journey: we should not beat ourselves up if we cannot switch overnight to it in every area of life. — 00:08:30
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — Ali says he still has a fixed mindset in some areas, such as being a manager and a leader, relationships and health, and a growth mindset in business, content and coding. (hedged) — 00:08:30
  • 2021-11-09 · This Book Changed my Love Life — recommendation: Ali advises looking for a partner with a growth mindset, who is more likely to work together to overcome problems in the relationship than to call it quits. — 00:11:48
  • 2021-11-09 · This Book Changed my Love Life — Ali says dating apps cannot measure the traits that matter, such as emotional stability, kindness, a growth mindset or fighting well, so we judge on superficial things that are easy to measure. — 00:12:50

2020

  • 2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Carol Dweck (quoted): In Carol Dweck's research, children given a slightly too hard challenge who understood that their abilities could grow through hard work had what she calls a growth mindset; for those with a fixed mindset it was catastrophic, as their core intelligence had been tested. — 00:10:12
  • 2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Ali has preached the growth mindset to friends and family for years: our abilities are not fixed, we can grow, and everything is a learning experience. — 00:10:12
  • 2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Ali: Because of the growth mindset, Ali says, he has no qualms about putting his hand up to ask a question in class or a lecture, or about looking like an idiot, since it is all a work in progress. — 00:10:49
  • 2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Ali: One issue with the growth mindset, Ali says, is that it can be taken too literally. — 00:10:49
  • 2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Molly Hunt says she takes every mistake very personally, as reflecting on her rather than as something to learn from, and is gradually getting better at the growth mindset Ali has tried to teach her for about eight years. — 00:15:14
  • 2020-07-14 · Is Success Luck or Hard Work? — Angela Duckworth (quoted): The fourth component, hope, underlies the others: grit rests on expecting our efforts to improve us, so we must drop the idea of fixed abilities for Carol Dweck's growth mindset. — 00:05:46
  • 2020-07-14 · Is Success Luck or Hard Work? — Angela Duckworth (quoted): Angela Duckworth says a fixed mindset leads to pessimistic explanations of adversity, while a growth mindset leads to perseverance and seeking out new challenges. — 00:06:16
  • 2020-07-14 · Is Success Luck or Hard Work? — Ali says absolutely everything is a skill that can be learned and anyone can improve at whatever they want; he has tried to build that attitude for two decades and it has served him well. — 00:06:16

2018