education
I cannot think of a good title for this that doesn't involve me being completely blown away
Best quotes, in my opinion:
Everywhere we look, the visible spectrum is rainbows. this cannot be natural...we all know, this is not something that happened twenty years ago...
We as a nation have got to ask ourselves what the hell is going on.
Study supports notion that intelligence doesn't need to be fixed
Does that make sense? I was having trouble wording the headline. Basically, Carol Dweck's research suggests that how you conceive your talents has an effect on how well you are able to achieve goals which utilize those talents. If you can understand your talents as being mutable rather than fixed, it seems to be the case that you can achieve more:
Beliefs about intelligence affect mental performance.
This rings true for me. I've always believed that I could learn anything I set my mind to, and I've achieved a lot with that mindset. I also make it clear in the classes I teach at Parsons that your level of comprehension has nothing to do with whether you are "good at code" or not, or whether you've done well at math or science in the past, or any other excuse you can think up: it's about working hard and finding the right way to understand the concepts. Not everyone understands things in the same way, and this isn't just a feel-good cliché, it is absolutely true. This is critically important to understand if you want to get past your barriers to learning.
