#024 - Peter C Brown - The Science Of Successful Learning Habits
Modern Wisdom
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The Importance of a Growth Mindset in Learning
There is this theory of a growth mindset that has been introduced by a cognitive psychologist at Stanford University, California named Carol Dweck. When you work hard to learn something, you are building new connections in the brain and over time, you're actually increasing your intellectual abilities through these mental challenges. So there's an issue here, I think, when we're saying that some difficulties are desirable, it's not doesn't sound like good news to students. Cutting yourself some slack, if it feels difficult, thinking you're not getting it, cut yourself some slack,. You think you're notgetting it, but you probably are.
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