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Innovation 2.0: Multiplying the Growth Mindset

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Innovation 2.0: Multiplying the Growth Mindset

Hidden Brain

2024/05/06
Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain

2024/05/06
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Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that people wrote you off? Maybe a teacher suggested you weren't talented enough to take a certain class, or a boss implied that you didn't have the smarts needed to handle a big project. In the latest in ou...

Highlights

This episode explores how our collective obsession with 'genius'—the idea that success stems from innate, effortless brilliance—distorts learning, damages confidence, and excludes entire groups of people from opportunity.
07:20
Stack ranking forces forced tiers where the bottom percentage is likely to be let go, breeding competition and cynicism.
13:50
Fields emphasizing 'brilliance' for success correlate with lower representation of women and students of color
21:02
Students perceiving their professors' fixed-mindset beliefs often feel like imposters, even when they do well
31:36
A 2021 study found students in a growth-mindset online program did better, but it didn't work when teachers had fixed mindsets
34:51
Mindset culture, not personal mindsets, predicts employees' organizational experiences
49:14
Shankar invites Mary to play the cello as a live demonstration of growth mindset in action

Chapters

Why do we mistake calm surfaces for effortless genius?
00:00
How does calling a field 'brilliant' keep people out?
10:32
What do professors' offhand comments really tell students about their worth?
17:16
When does believing in 'natural talent' make organizations brittle—and dishonest?
24:17
What do truly growth-oriented institutions actually do differently?
34:51
How did Microsoft trade rankings for rigor—and why did it work?
42:02

Transcript

Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Many years ago, two researchers at Harvard noticed something interesting at their university's Peabody Museum of Natural History. It was a description about a pair of 19th-century German glassma...