Bill Gates: What You Believe Affects What You Achieve

[Weaponize]

Bill Gates reviews the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006), by the Stanford psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck

Emphasis is mine:

Our genes influence our intelligence and talents, but these qualities are not fixed at birth. If you mistakenly believe that your capabilities derive from DNA and destiny, rather than practice and perseverance, then you operate with what Dweck calls a “fixed mindset” rather than a “growth mindset.” Our parents and teachers exert a big influence on which mindset we adopt—and that mindset, in turn, has a profound impact on how we learn and which paths we take in life.

In experiment after experiment, Dweck has shown that the fixed mindset is a huge psychological roadblock

From the point of view of the fixed mindset, effort is only for people with deficiencies…. If you’re considered a genius, a talent, or a natural—then you have a lot to lose. Effort can reduce you.

If you have the fixed mindset and believe you lost the genetic lottery, you also have little incentive to work hard. Why bother putting in a lot of effort to learn a difficult concept if...

In contrast, people with the growth mindset believe that basic qualities, including intelligence, can be strengthened like muscles.

One of the reasons I [Bill Gates] loved Mindset is because it’s solutions-oriented. In the book’s final chapter, Dweck describes the workshop she and her colleagues have developed to shift students from a fixed to a growth mindset.

The greatest virtue of the book is that you can’t help but ask yourself things like, “Which areas have I always looked at through a fixed-mindset lens?” and “In what ways am I sending the wrong message to my children about mindset and effort?”

 

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[Panamera Turbo S]

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[Lavi Fletcher]

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[AndrewNC]

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[Panamera Turbo S]

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[AndrewNC]

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Siefz gus e gap nopf muuq?

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[Panamera Turbo S]

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