
Carol Dweck, “Mindsets: Growing Your Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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What Makes a Great Teacher?
One of the things that puzzled me was why people cling to some outmoaded beliefs. And you go through this quite explicitly, you don't quite answer that question. Why is it in your view that we as a society are so constantly fixated on this golden image that it doesn't seem to measure up? Yes. I think there are a few reasons. One is that i think when you have a fixed mind, sat, it's very powerful. So you focus on what someone has accomplished as a sign of their natural ability. You see michael jordan, and you think, well, look what he's done. He has to be a form of genius. We all know
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