Annie Murphy Paul on The Extended Mind
The Informed Life
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The Growth Mind Set and Its Metaphor of the Brain as Muscle
The idea of the brain as computer that process is some kind of imput and then generates an output, i think that we can all relate to. There's another metaphor that you also discuss in the book, this idea of thebrain as a muscle. I do have some issues with that metaphor, because, again, it's a very brain centric kind of metaphor. It focuses all of its fire power on the brain, on the idea that exercising the brain is how we make it stronger. And i think, in a way, it limits people who are very attached to the gross mind set. Because if simply exercising the brain harder and harder isn't getting you what you want, there
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