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Ep269 - Carol Dweck | The Growth Mindset

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Is There Talent in Inborn Talent?

You really can't watch a sports broadcast or the show america's got talent without hearing how talented that player is. I teach a freshman seminore at stanford every year and have my students do an assignment where they do research on their hero. And almost invariably, they think that hero just catapulted to success because of this amazing inborn talent. So i don't rule out the idea the fact that some people are born with passions and talents and build those. Many people who never achieve anything are also born with talents and fashions that they don't see through. That's the raw material that you've got to develop.

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