Much more recently, Jessica Schleider, an assistant professor at…

Much more recently, Jessica Schleider, an assistant professor at Stony Brook University, built on Dweck's work and found that kids aged twelve to fifteen who were introduced to the concept that people can change, and that the brain is malleable, showed greater improve-ments on depression and anxiety, compared to a control group.

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan

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Effort stops being a confession of weakness and becomes the very road to mastery. 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. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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