How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset

In this episode, I discuss how to build and apply a growth mindset — the practice of self-rewarding and focusing on learning and skill development through effort — to improve learning and performance. I also discuss how our internal narratives drive our ability to make progress. I contrast the growth mindset vs. the fixed mindset and describe how the type of feedback or praise we receive shapes our mindsets, and the huge advantage of rewarding and celebrating “verbs” (actions) rather than adjectives (performance labels). I also discuss data showing how stress can enhance performance and explain why the growth mindset works synergistically with the “stress-is-enhancing mindset,” and how to combine them. Whether you are a student, coach, therapist, parent, teacher or simply someone seeking to improve at something, this episode provides numerous science-supported tools for how to adopt a performance enhancing mindset.

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Articles
Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-0...
Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article...
Rethinking stress: The role of mindsets in determining the stress response: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-0...
A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Other Resources
Dr. Carol Dweck: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carol-d...
Dr. Alia Crum: https://profiles.stanford.edu/alia-crum
Dr. Alia Crum: Science of Mindsets for Health & Performance (Huberman Lab episode): https://hubermanlab.com/dr-alia-crum-...
Dr. David Yeager: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psycho...

Timestamps
00:00:00 Growth Mindset
00:02:55 Sponsors: Eight Sleep & ROKA
00:05:17 Mindset & Narrative
00:12:58 Intelligence Feedback vs. Effort Feedback, Identity Labels
00:20:10 Intelligence vs. Effort Praise: Performance, Persistence & Self-Representation
00:26:45 Fixed Intelligence vs. Growth Mindset
00:28:53 Tool: Intelligence (Performance) vs. Effort Narrative, Labels
00:32:30 Tool: Failure & Identity; Effort & Verbs
00:34:36 Sponsor: AG1
00:35:41 Tool: Timing, Intelligence vs. Effort Praise & Performance
00:40:08 Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset: Failure & Performance
00:50:28 Tool: Shift from Fixed Mindset
00:54:23 Sponsor: InsideTracker
00:55:30 Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset
01:05:53 How Stress Can Enhance Performance
01:13:21 Growth Mindset + Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset & Performance
01:20:36 Reframing Stress
01:25:45 Tool 1: Student & Teacher Mindset
01:28:17 Tool 2: Effort Praise/Feedback: Verbs not Labels
01:31:24 Tool 3: Errors & Seeking Help
01:32:58 Tool 4: Self-Teaching & Growth Mindset
01:34:35 Tool 5: Reframe “Mind is Like a Muscle” Analogy
01:39:20 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

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