[HN Gopher] How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success ___________________________________________________________________ How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success Author : adrian_mrd Score : 25 points Date : 2020-03-12 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com) | trimble_tromble wrote: | It's important to note that mindset theory has recently come | under question: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761989758... | | For a twitter summary of the above paper, see here: | https://twitter.com/BrookeMacnamara/status/12247169045745459... | BooneJS wrote: | One thing I admire about my most successful coworkers is their | lack of fear when diving headfirst into something new. "Hey, | we've got this problem, can you take a look?" | | And they say sure. | | They will research, then code, then hit a roadblock and pick a | new direction, and repeat. They assume they can get past whatever | roadblocks they have, and they're always correct. | | Other people will research until they think they've got a plan to | get around every bit of friction they'll encounter. The longer | you take to get started, the longer achieving a workable solution | will take. | crispinb wrote: | _and they 're always correct_ | | Survivorship bias. For every fearless, boots'n'all person I | know in a variety of fields (not just dev) who's "succeeded", I | know many more whose headlong attempts crashed and burned. | Consequences ranged from merely becoming more cautious, to | homelessness and suicide. | analog31 wrote: | It could also be because our perception of risk is biased. | What I mean is, we _think_ they are being fearless, when in | reality, they just have a more accurate perception of the | actual risk than we do -- possibly because they are choosing | their battles carefully. | Swizec wrote: | You're more likely to succeed when you actively try to succeed. | | But it's okay to procrastinate too. Let the future better | version of you solve the problem. | | The trick is finding balance. | ASalazarMX wrote: | > Or Donald Trump: "Without passion, you don't have energy. | Without energy, you have nothing." | | He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who is passionate about | his job. | dang wrote: | Let's not have political flamebait here please. That leads away | from intellectually curious conversation, which is what we want | on HN. | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | crispinb wrote: | Given that the 45 quote came directly from the article in | question, this strikes me as a tad unreasonable in this case. | At the very least, the 45 reference could quite reasonably | lead to interrogation of the article author's superficial | concept of 'success' (regardless of one's politics). | benrawk wrote: | Most of the growth mindset literature hasn't replicated... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-12 23:00 UTC)