Andrew Huberman· PhD
there are three big things that are in every intervention and the term that Greg Walton the Stanford Professor um colleague collaborator um uses is wise interventions that's the umbrella term of which growth mindset is one and a good one but it's just one of many for wise interventions we often do the following three things first is we present some new scientific information some idea that almost in like a Gladwell way is not is not obvious and intuitive to the reader but feels like new information and useful information so the first is a scientific the second is we present participants with stories from people like them who've used those ideas in their lives and found them useful so in the concrete case of ninth graders getting growth mindset it's like 10th 11th 12th graders who previously felt dumb learned a growth mindset then felt better that's it's more complicated than that that's the basic idea and last we don't just tell them the stories we ask third for participants to to author a story so they write a narrative about a time when they struggled a time when they doubted themselves and then remembered this idea that people can change like my brain can grow Etc