TPP 450: Dr. David Yeager on What the Science Says About Motivating Young People
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the central focus of Dr. David Yeager’s book on motivating young people?
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I'm Debbie Reber, and this is Full Tilt Parenting, previously known as Tilt Parenting, and this is a podcast all about supporting and raising neurodivergent kids. Today I'm talking with Dr. David Yeager, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the world's leading experts on adolescent motivation and mindset. David has worked with Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth, consulted for organizations. Like Google and the White House, and is known for creating simple, powerful interventions that help kids thrive. He's also the author of a wonderful book called 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: a Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation and Making Your Own Life Easier.
And that's the book that we are going to be diving into today. So in this episode, I talk with David about what What really fuels motivation and a sense of belonging for our kids, especially our neurodivergent kids? We unpack the different mindsets adults bring to the table and how shifting into a mentor mindset can help kids feel respected, understood, and more engaged. David shares a lot of powerful insights about what helps adolescents thrive, and we explore how things like trust, connection, and belief in a child's potential can make all the difference. So here is my conversation with Dr. David Yeager. Hey, David. Welcome to the podcast.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Thank you so much for being here. I know you are very busy and I've had this book for a while. So I was very excited when I finally had time to spend with it because it's very rich in story and research. And I really wanted to kind of dive into it. So I'm looking forward to talking about it today. As a way to get into our conversation, I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about what led you to write your book. The book is 10 to 25, The Science of Motivating Young People. And another subtitle is a groundbreaking approach to leading the next generation and making your own life easier. So tell us about how this book came together for you.
Yeah, I think the main thing was a need that I kept seeing from parents. When you're pregnant and you know you're gonna have a baby, you're immediately reading a million books about pregnancy. And then when you've got a one year old or a toddler, you're reading all these books about discipline and body training and There's a sense of optimism that we have when our kids are young. It's as though this is a hard puzzle, but it's a puzzle we can figure out. And when they start becoming teenagers, when puberty Kicks in, we just give up as a society. It's unbelievable. We're like, there's nothing I can do. Let's lock them in a closet until they're 25. And there's a sense of despair and hopelessness. And that just feels weird to me.
Like there's no way that the crucible of evolution over hundreds of thousands of years created an entire age range that's actually much longer than early childhood, in which we are completely worthless as humans and unreachable. And instead, it just seems more likely that as our culture has evolved, we've kind of gotten worse and worse at connecting with that generation and setting it up for survival and success. I really wanted to get to the bottom of that problem. I wanted to see at what level are we just thinking about young people wrong? Are there success stories? What lessons can we learn from failures? And how can we stop walking around feeling frustrated and crushed and pessimistic about the future and start being hopeful.
As I was reading your book and even just kind of getting started in it, I was thinking of the breakthrough years from Ellen Galinski and I know that she also has a very similar like this is an incredible time of life and we're doing such a disservice to young people, kind of painting them with a broad brush about what they're not capable of or what all the problems are.
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