I’m curious what happens if you try on a different suspension of disbelief; imagine peoples’ lives if they lack only growth mindset and not any other moral or agentic abilities.
I find quite a bit of difference in behavior between smart people who believe things about what and who they are, and the people who believe things about how they have acted, can change, and may act in the future.
Smart people without growth mindset often rabbithole into things like legalistic religions and overcoming what they perceive as unalterable weaknesses inherent to their nature, or try to maximize their perceived inherent strengths, ignoring development of new skills and abilities. Introspection is like a checklist of how well they’ve done against a platonic ideal, with maybe some planning to avoid unwinnable situations.
Smart people with growth mindset usually focus on therapy (e.g. understanding their patterns of behavior and the outcomes and how they might alter those patterns in a persistent way), learning new skills and behaviors, possibly some mind-altering substances, and interacting with a lot of diverse other people to understand how they might change or acquire new beliefs and behaviors. Introspection is an exploration of possibilities and personal history and values and how to begin winning in previously unwinnable situations.
Less smart people tend to follow similar patterns, but slower or needing more guidance to proceed.
lack only growth mindset and not any other moral or agentic abilities
what about rationality and meta-cognition? or believing in hard work? i would not call it growth mindset.
I don’t feel disgust to such people, but, i do notice all the way people ignore reality, all the way that if they just falsely believed they can’t change certain categories of things, they would have noticed the error and fix it, when evidence occurred.
It’s actually pretty hard to learn in schools decade and half and fail to notice that if you learning some subject in school, you become better at it, for example. truths are entangled, after all.…
I’m curious what happens if you try on a different suspension of disbelief; imagine peoples’ lives if they lack only growth mindset and not any other moral or agentic abilities.
I find quite a bit of difference in behavior between smart people who believe things about what and who they are, and the people who believe things about how they have acted, can change, and may act in the future.
Smart people without growth mindset often rabbithole into things like legalistic religions and overcoming what they perceive as unalterable weaknesses inherent to their nature, or try to maximize their perceived inherent strengths, ignoring development of new skills and abilities. Introspection is like a checklist of how well they’ve done against a platonic ideal, with maybe some planning to avoid unwinnable situations.
Smart people with growth mindset usually focus on therapy (e.g. understanding their patterns of behavior and the outcomes and how they might alter those patterns in a persistent way), learning new skills and behaviors, possibly some mind-altering substances, and interacting with a lot of diverse other people to understand how they might change or acquire new beliefs and behaviors. Introspection is an exploration of possibilities and personal history and values and how to begin winning in previously unwinnable situations.
Less smart people tend to follow similar patterns, but slower or needing more guidance to proceed.
what about rationality and meta-cognition? or believing in hard work? i would not call it growth mindset.
I don’t feel disgust to such people, but, i do notice all the way people ignore reality, all the way that if they just falsely believed they can’t change certain categories of things, they would have noticed the error and fix it, when evidence occurred.
It’s actually pretty hard to learn in schools decade and half and fail to notice that if you learning some subject in school, you become better at it, for example. truths are entangled, after all.…