Growth mindset vs fixed mindset

I liked his talk...it's actually about learning but I wonder if it doesn't apply to MI too. The idea is if you tell kids that their innate abilities are making them smart etc they actually do worse than if you tell them that working really hard makes them better at answering questions etc. I could not help but relate this to the way that my treatment team deal with my illness. They were very much about the fact that things could change and also especially in cbt that I could actively control the process. I basically just realized that they taught me a growth style of dealing with it as opposed to the idea that there was some sort of innate basis on a genetic or chemical level...they tended to stay away from that despite their reliance on meds etc. It's interesting but kind of cool the idea that you don't have to be special so much as to work hard. It also kind of reminds me of Malcolm gladwell's outliers where the key to being extraordinary is 10,000 hours of work. Something to think about.

Thanks for sharing!