Andrew Huberman· PhD
Now, those are over-simplified generalizations about the nature of intelligence. And the reality is as it always is complex, and it's a bit of both and it's all the things. But as humans, we need these simplifying systems to help us understand a complex reality. So those assumptions that we jumped to, oh, intelligence is fixed or intelligence is malleable, they help us to simplify this complex reality, but they're not in consequential, right? They matter in shaping our motivation. And as she has shown, if you have the mindset, that intelligence is malleable, you're motivated to work harder, to grow your intelligence. If you have a setback in your learning, you think, okay, there's something there that I can grow and learn and build from. If you have the mindset that it's fixed, you know, why work harder at math, if you don't think you're good at it.