That is such an interesting example because if I had to name my biggest mistake (of which there were many) when founding MetaMed, it was failing to think enough about whether to shut down the company, and doing what I could to keep it going rather than letting things gracefully fail (or, if possible, taking what I could get). We did think a bunch about various pivots.
Your proposed ontology is strange to me, but I suppose one could say that one can hold such things as ‘I don’t know and don’t have a guess’ if it need not impact one’s behavior.
Whether or not it makes sense for Ilya to think about what happens if he fails is a good question. In some ways it seems very important for him to be aware he might fail and to ensure that such failure is graceful if it happens. In others, it’s fine to leave that to the future or someone else. I do want him aware enough to check for the difference.
With growth mindset, I try to cultivate it a bunch, but also it’s important to recognize where growth is too expensive to make sense or actually impossible—for me, for example, learning to give up trying to learn foreign languages.
That is such an interesting example because if I had to name my biggest mistake (of which there were many) when founding MetaMed, it was failing to think enough about whether to shut down the company, and doing what I could to keep it going rather than letting things gracefully fail (or, if possible, taking what I could get). We did think a bunch about various pivots.
Your proposed ontology is strange to me, but I suppose one could say that one can hold such things as ‘I don’t know and don’t have a guess’ if it need not impact one’s behavior.
Whether or not it makes sense for Ilya to think about what happens if he fails is a good question. In some ways it seems very important for him to be aware he might fail and to ensure that such failure is graceful if it happens. In others, it’s fine to leave that to the future or someone else. I do want him aware enough to check for the difference.
With growth mindset, I try to cultivate it a bunch, but also it’s important to recognize where growth is too expensive to make sense or actually impossible—for me, for example, learning to give up trying to learn foreign languages.