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| (Josh Waitzkin, via Wikipedia) |
For this week's growth mindset post, I watched this TEDxManhattan talk by Eduardo Briceno. In the talk, he recaps what we've already heard Carol Dweck say in her other videos towards the beginning of the semester, and elaborates on the effects of growth mindset--not only in children, but also in adults such as Josh Waitzkin, who has won many national chess championships and many national championship awards in Tai Chi Chuan. Waitzkin attributes his success to having developed a growth mindset after losing his first chess championship--he says that this loss proved to him that he wasn't a prodigy, or inherently more intelligent that anyone else, and inspired him to put more effort into improving.
I found Waitzkin's story pretty inspiring; being a martial artist who came late to my sport myself, I'm always interested in the stories of people who start various martial arts in their twenties and go on to become national champions. It's not just martial arts that growth mindset is useful for, of course, but their philosophies play really well together as a whole, I think--one of the goals of the World Taekwondo Federation is to instill a philosophy of constant improvement and integration of the mind, body, and spirit, for example--so it's interesting to think of growth mindset in that context....
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