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The Power of Growth Mindset and Stress-Enhancing Mindset in Performance and Learning
TLDR Embracing a growth mindset, which focuses on effort rather than intelligence, can lead to improved performance and motivation. Additionally, adopting a stress-enhancing mindset can enhance cognition and physiological responses to stress, ultimately improving learning outcomes.
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Growth mindset is the concept of embracing challenge and optimizing performance by distancing your identity from performance and attaching it to effort and the process of learning.
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Growth mindset is closely related to neuroplasticity and involves organizing and encoding information in a way that allows us to simplify our world and make choices based on our narratives and sense of identity.
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The type of feedback we receive, whether it is based on our intelligence or our effort, can significantly impact our motivation and performance in a given endeavor.
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Giving intelligence praise can reduce performance, while giving effort praise can improve performance and lead to taking on more challenges.
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Children who receive intelligence praise are more likely to lie about their performance and overestimate their abilities, while children who receive effort praise accurately represent their performance and have the potential to improve their abilities.
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Effort-based praise is more effective at improving performance than intelligence-based labels, and attaching performance labels to one's identity can lead to a diminished sense of self when faced with failure or poor results.
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Effort praise leads to better performance and intelligence praise leads to diminished performance because people with a growth mindset respond better to errors and feedback, as shown in a study using event-related potentials (ERPs) to measure brain activity.
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People with a growth mindset tend to appraise and direct their attention towards understanding errors and setbacks, rather than just feeling them as emotional responses, which is fundamental to the distinction between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
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Focusing on errors and analyzing them from a cognitive standpoint is crucial for developing a growth mindset.
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Embracing a stress is enhancing mindset, along with a growth mindset, can significantly improve performance and learning outcomes.
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Learning that stress can enhance performance, even in less challenging tasks, can lead to improved performance, as our cognitive understanding of stress impacts whether it has debilitating or enhancing effects on our physiology.
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Embracing a stress is enhancing mindset can lead to shorter duration release of cortisol, increased stroke volume, improved peripheral blood flow, and enhanced cognition under stress.
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Students who are taught about a growth mindset and a stress-is-enhancing mindset perform better in tests and challenges, experience reduced anticipatory stress, and are able to shift their physiology and psychology to view stress as an opportunity for growth and improved performance.
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A 30-minute tutorial that combines learning about growth mindset and stress as performance-enhancing led to significant improvements in self-regard, passing challenging courses, and taking on additional hard challenges in the future.
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Learning about growth mindset and stress as performance-enhancing, and using tools such as focusing on verbs instead of labels, seeking help from others, and being our own teacher, can enhance performance and solidify a growth mindset.
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Writing a letter to explain growth mindset and stress enhances performance can improve one's own performance and future learning.
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