Professor Carol Dweck
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35 appearances
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first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
Professor Carol Dweck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For years, we thought you have a certain brain and that's that.
Some people have a better one.
Some people have a worse one.
But now we're understanding the tremendous plasticity of the brain.
And the idea that the growth of your brain is in your hands is a thrilling idea and a motivating idea.
In the late 1990s, when our
country was at the height of the self-esteem movement, the self-esteem gurus told everybody to praise their children's intelligence, tell them how clever they are all the time.
And this was supposed to build their confidence, their self-esteem, and all good things would happen.
But we did our research and showed that when you tell children they're clever, it backfires.
The ones who've been told they're clever now fall apart.
They think, gee, if...
Doing well meant I was clever.
I guess struggling means I'm not.
They stop enjoying the task.
They stop doing well.
But the ones who have been praised for their process, for their effort, realize, well, these are harder problems.
I just have to figure out how to learn them, how to do them.
Their confidence remains high.
Their enjoyment of the problems remains high.
And their performance starts getting better and better.
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