967: How to Overcome the Fixed Mindset and Create Cultures of Growth with Dr. Mary C. Murphy
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mary C. Murphy explains the downsides to the culture of genius—and shares an alternative path for transforming individuals, teams, and organizations.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The biggest misconceptions about the growth mindset
2) The optimal number of mistakes to make
3) How to deal with the four situations that trigger a fixed mindset
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— ABOUT MARY —
Mary C. Murphy is the Herman B Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Founding Director of the Summer Institute on Diversity at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Founder and CEO of the Equity Accelerator, a research and consulting organization that works with schools and companies to create more equitable learning and working environments through social and behavioral science.
Murphy is the author of more than 100 publications and in 2019, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest award bestowed on early career scholars by the U.S. government. She is also an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and NPR, among other outlets.
Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in social psychology from Stanford University in 2007, mentored by Claude Steele and Carol Dweck. She splits her time between Bloomington, Indiana, and Palo Alto, California.
Mary’s new book on organizational mindset, Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations is available now.
• Assessment: Mindset Triggers Assessment
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• Book: Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy Edmondson
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
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| 0:00.0 | When we are focused on those performance goals, a lot of our cognitive resources and |
| 0:13.8 | executive function actually is focused on the self. It's focused on me and how I'm coming across and my |
| 0:17.3 | reputation and how other people are seeing me. And so by literally dividing our |
| 0:22.0 | attention in this way, |
| 0:23.3 | self-focused and then the work that you're actually trying to do, |
| 0:26.8 | it takes longer to do that work. |
| 0:28.6 | We do it ironically with more mistakes. |
| 0:32.2 | And it actually undermines, undermines therefore the quality of the work that comes out. |
| 0:38.0 | If you have flawless performance you're not learning anything. You're not learning what worked, you're not really learning about what might work or |
| 0:44.8 | what could work or how to get innovative about it. And so mistakes are integral. |
| 0:49.1 | That's Dr. Mary Murphy. |
| 0:54.0 | She's an award-winning professor of psychology and brain sciences at Indiana University. |
| 0:59.0 | She got her PhD in social psychology from Stanford, |
| 1:02.0 | where she was mentored by Claude Steele and Carol Duac. |
| 1:04.3 | And today she's sharing some insights from her latest book, |
| 1:06.8 | cultures of growth, how the new science and mindset can transform individuals, |
| 1:10.8 | teams, and organizations. So you'll learn one, the biggest misconceptions |
| 1:15.2 | about the growth mindset, two, the optimal member of mistakes to make, and three, |
| 1:21.2 | how to deal with the four situations that can trigger a fixed mindset. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm Pete Mukitis. This is How to be Awesome at your job. And now here's Mary. Mary welcome. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you Pete. |
| 1:38.0 | It's so good to be here. |
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