Growth Mindset
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
20VC
6 statements about Growth Mindset, every show
Colonna: Dogmatically enforcing a growth mindset turns it into a fixed mindset
“When we get too fixed on the proper way to do things, we're setting ourselves up for attachment and therefore suffering. So if you can hold something like a mindset, Loosely with that attachment, go for it. Have a blast. Enjoy it. But the minute you start to n…”
Rangan: Adaptability and learning diminish as companies grow larger
“Asking questions, being curious, learning, adapting, that is not a given in, you know, any company, or that's not even a given in the mindset, and I think in the larger you become, you do have people who like the comfort of, you know, I've done this before, an…”
Gross: Growth mindset means willingness to abandon early core values
“That comes, that's part of you asked before what's growth, growth mindset. That's growth mindset. Right? Is being so religiously customer focused that you're willing to challenge the core values that you genuinely believe have contributed to your success becau…”
McGonigal: Every video game builds transferable adaptability and growth mindset
“The number one thing we know, any game that you love, I don't care if it's League of Legends, it's Fortnite, it's Candy Crush, whatever, whatever you feel drawn to we know that there is a transferable benefit, which is you get better at learning new things. At…”
Children infer mindset from parents' reactions to mistakes, not abstract beliefs
“Kids tend to draw strong inferences from their parents' reactions to mistakes. So Kyla's work began with a very curious observation, which was that the correlation between kids' Parents' beliefs about the malleability of intelligence and their parents' beliefs…”
Chaudhary: 50 million kids have learned growth mindset via ClassDojo
“What we do know is that, like, you know, for fifty million kids, they've been exposed to the idea for growth mindset, and they're using the words in the classroom, and they're using things like you know, it's not that I can't do this yet.”