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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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The Growth Mindset Is a Thing

I've spoken so much about Mindset just over and over. And Mindset is basically about intelligence or about ability. It's about saying whether you believe that your talent is fixed or your skills are fixed, or do you think that through working you will increase your skills? Now, that's something that has been shown to have massive effects on how well people do when they're learning something. So it's really important. But the thing is, because I wanted to believe in the growth mindset thing so much, I ended up trying to ignore intelligence research,. Trying to ignore things to do with IQ.

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