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This is a good question, but based on my experience, I have come to the conclusion that the mindset that characterizes the three groups really go beyond enginee
by gyepi 13y ago
This is a good question, but based on my experience, I have come to the conclusion that the mindset that characterizes the three groups really go beyond engineering or computing. It takes a certain amount of curiousity, interest, ability, learning and so forth to have a type 3 mindset and some of that simply cannot be externally driven.
Having said that, encouragement is good. Share what you learn as you do it, talk about the books you've read and what benefit they provide. Sometimes people just need an example closer at hand to see their own potential.
In the end, it really up to each person to decide how they want to approach life.
- mephju 13y agoI am not a type 3 engineer myself but I too believe it's a matter of mindset. So what you want to do is to help them change their mindset. I have read 2 really, really interesting books on that matter. The first is called 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck and the second one is 'Talent Code' by Daniel Coyle. They are so valuable I believe that from now on we will see a blossoming of talents in the western world never seen before due to such books addressing mindset problems. I hope you take the time to look into them. They will give you hints and advice on how to spark the growth mindset in other people.
- gyepi 13y agoI was introduced to the Dweck book some years ago and it made a big impact on me; I essentially had a fixed mindset and needed to "see" it in order to change it. Another really good book is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow", which, for me, anyway, extends Dweck's growth mindset concept to an operational level. I have recommended both numerous times to good effect. I'm not so sanguine about the blossoming of talents; our system of education does not encourage the growth mindset, for the most part, until it's too late and learning it later in life is hard.