your reactions to the research findings and print brain…
your reactions to the research findings and print brain plasticity in the malleability. A behaviour in this book, depend importantly, on your own beliefs about how much people can really control and change what do you become
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel
In the book
This is not soft encouragement; when researchers simply taught children that the brain is malleable and that people can change, those children showed measurably less depression and anxiety than a control group. In fact your reaction to the whole science of brain plasticity depends, more than anything, on what you already believe about how much a person can change — which is why choosing the growth mindset is the first move, the one that unlocks all the others. The first engine, once you believe change is possible, is learning — and I want to be emphatic about this, because it is the engine I have leaned on hardest my whole life. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)