Andrew Huberman· PhD
For instance, growth mindset seems to effectively change performance best when both teachers and students adopt it and when it’s combined with a firm understanding of stress biology.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
For instance, growth mindset seems to effectively change performance best when both teachers and students adopt it and when it’s combined with a firm understanding of stress biology.
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Neither works unless implemented correctly & it’s NOT about positive self talk.
Growth Mindset research (pioneered by Carol Dweck) can be powerful in practice but it is far effective when combined with “Stress is Enhancing” approach.
when you combine growth mindset with the stresses enhancing mindset you and anyone it's been shown can vastly improve your performance in essentially anything
there's this additional mindset which is has to do with our mindset around stress and frustration itself that can allow us to access growth mindset far more easily and this mindset around stress actually has a name it's called the stress is enhancing mindset
when the D work is combined with some of the alium work that is growth mindset is combined with a knowledge just a basic and true understanding that stress and the feelings of anxiety and tension that um can actually be performance- enhancing when those two things are combined I think this the work of David joer and colleagues at UT Austin that uh indeed growth mindset becomes um more visible in our in our um mindsets and performance
so the big Insight was pairing the these ideas about reframing stress as an an inevitable Force that's going to destroy your goal Pursuit into a resource to be cultivated and pairing that together with the first step which is the growth mindset that causes you to like be open to the challenge in the first place