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The title here should probably be edited to add "(2007)," which is when I first read this interesting and informative article. This article was published just a

The title here should probably be edited to add "(2007)," which is when I first read this interesting and informative article. This article was published just around the time that Carol Dweck was putting together her popular book Mindset,[1] which is well worth reading for all the Hacker News participants who have missed out on reading the book so far. Follow-up research by Dweck and other researchers have continued to show benefits to "growth mindset" and good effects from interventions designed to build growth mindset in young learners and older learners.[2] I'm very glad that this research program was pursued while my children were still young, as I think that my children have benefited from mindset interventions that emphasize effort in practice over "natural" talent. [1] http://mindsetonline.com/ http://mindsetonline.com/ [2] http://www.stanforduniversity.info/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/system/files/brainpoints_chi.pdf http://www.stanforduniversity.info/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/d... http://www.pnas.org/content/110/37/14818.full http://www.pnas.org/content/110/37/14818.full https://intranet.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/Files/medewerkersportal/os/Onderwijscentrum_OC_Focus/Lunchlezingen_Studiesucces/Dweck_White_Paper_2013_How_Can_We_Instill_Productive_Mindsets_at_Scale.pdf https://intranet.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/Files/medewerkersporta... http://cpl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Schroder-et-al-in-press-Mindset-Induction.pdf http://cpl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Schroder-e...

jcr 12y ago
You're right. Thanks for the suggestion on the title change. It seems most people tend to look at the "growth mindset" work through the lens of child development, or adult development, or business management, or general learning, or similar. For some reason, I enjoyed thinking about it in terms of code and coding. When code fails to do what I want or expect, there is always a knowable reason for it behaving as it does, and there is always a standing challenge for me to figure it out why it works as it does. If I'm dissatisfied with the code I'm running today, then there's always a standing challenge for me to try improving it. Even if I "fail" to improve it, I can still enjoy the challenge of trying to improve it, and as a side effect, I'll most likely learn something new, exciting and useful along the way.

jcr 12y ago

You're right. Thanks for the suggestion on the title change. It seems most people tend to look at the "growth mindset" work through the lens of child development, or adult development, or business management, or general learning, or similar. For some reason, I enjoyed thinking about it in terms of code and coding. When code fails to do what I want or expect, there is always a knowable reason for it behaving as it does, and there is always a standing challenge for me to figure it out why it works as it does. If I'm dissatisfied with the code I'm running today, then there's always a standing challenge for me to try improving it. Even if I "fail" to improve it, I can still enjoy the challenge of trying to improve it, and as a side effect, I'll most likely learn something new, exciting and useful along the way.