How Feedback Affects Performance - Andrew Huberman - Growth Mindset


Summary

The video introduces the concept of growth mindset and emphasizes the importance of questioning our beliefs about our abilities. It encourages self-reflection on skills, past experiences, and the role of persistence in skill development. The impact of different types of feedback, particularly intelligence feedback versus effort feedback, on performance outcomes and children's beliefs about themselves is discussed. It highlights the significance of rewarding effort over intelligence labels and challenges the notion of fixed intelligence by discussing neuroplasticity and the potential for improvement through effort.


Introduction

Introduction to growth mindset and the importance of questioning our abilities and beliefs about what we are good or bad at.

Self-Reflection on Skills

Encouraging self-reflection on personal skills, beliefs about abilities, and past experiences of success or failure.

Importance of Asking Questions

Highlighting the significance of asking why we are good or bad at something and the role of persistence in skill development.

Feedback and Performance

Discussing research on how specific types of feedback, such as intelligence feedback or effort feedback, affect performance outcomes and choices.

Effects of Feedback on Children

Exploring the impact of intelligence praise versus effort praise on children's performance, behaviors, and beliefs about themselves.

Persistence and Effort

Examining the relationship between persistence, effort, praise, and performance outcomes, emphasizing the importance of rewarding effort over intelligence labels.

Misrepresentation of Performance

Discussing the tendency of children who receive intelligence praise to misrepresent their performance and the implications of this behavior.

Beliefs about Intelligence

Exploring the common belief that intelligence is fixed and how neuroplasticity challenges this notion, highlighting the potential for improvement through effort.

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