How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset

Huberman Lab

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Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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In this episode, I discuss how to build and apply a growth mindset — the practice of self-rewarding and focusing on learning and skill development through effort — to improve learning and performance. I also discuss how our internal narratives drive our ability to make progress. I contrast the growth mindset vs. the fixed mindset and describe how the type of feedback or praise we receive shapes our mindsets, and the huge advantage of rewarding and celebrating “verbs” (actions) rather than adjectives (performance labels). I also discuss data showing how stress can enhance performance and explain why the growth mindset works synergistically with the “stress-is-enhancing mindset,” and how to combine them. Whether you are a student, coach, therapist, parent, teacher or simply someone seeking to improve at something, this episode provides numerous science-supported tools for how to adopt a performance enhancing mindset. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Growth Mindset (00:02:55) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & ROKA (00:05:17) Mindset & Narrative (00:12:58) Intelligence Feedback vs. Effort Feedback, Identity Labels (00:20:10) Intelligence vs. Effort Praise: Performance, Persistence & Self-Representation (00:26:45) Fixed Intelligence vs. Growth Mindset (00:28:53) Tool: Intelligence (Performance) vs. Effort Narrative, Labels (00:32:30) Tool: Failure & Identity; Effort & Verbs (00:34:36) Sponsor: AG1 (00:35:41) Tool: Timing, Intelligence vs. Effort Praise & Performance (00:40:080 Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset: Failure & Performance (00:50:28) Tool: Shift from Fixed Mindset (00:54:23) Sponsor: InsideTracker (00:55:30) Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset (01:05:53) How Stress Can Enhance Performance (01:13:21) Growth Mindset + Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset & Performance (01:20:36) Reframing Stress (01:25:45) Tool 1: Student & Teacher Mindset (01:28:17) Tool 2: Effort Praise/Feedback: Verbs not Labels (01:31:24) Tool 3: Errors & Seeking Help (01:32:58) Tool 4: Self-Teaching & Growth Mindset (01:34:35) Tool 5: Reframe “Mind is Like a Muscle” Analogy (01:39:20) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:08.7	I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and
0:12.2	ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today, we're discussing growth mindset.
0:17.4	Growth mindset is one of the most interesting and powerful concepts in all of psychology.
0:22.4	Growth mindset is essentially a way of embracing challenge and thinking about your bodily and brains response to challenge
0:29.6	in a way that allows you to optimize your performance. Growth mindset consists of many things which we will discuss today
0:36.0	and of course we will discuss how to implement growth mindset.
0:39.1	But some of the key features of growth mindset are developing an ability to distance your identity from the challenge you happen to be embracing.
0:47.8	Now that might come as a bit of a surprise to many of you. For instance,
0:51.7	we grow up hearing, we hope, from time to time, that we are smart, that we are talented, that we are a good athlete,
0:58.4	that we are a good artist. You know, we like to think that we are good at something or perhaps many things,
1:03.6	but it turns out that the kind of praise or feedback that we receive that attaches our identity to performance
1:10.1	can actually undermine our performance and believe it or not, this is especially problematic for people that perform well
1:17.6	in their endeavors. That's right. If you are somebody who performs well in school or athletics or music
1:22.9	and you are told that you are very smart, that you're an excellent student, that you're an excellent athlete or that you're an excellent musician,
1:31.0	you have much to lose if you at any moment do not perform well. And that's because your identity has been integrated with your performance.
1:40.5	Somewhat counterintuitively, growth mindset is the process of distancing your identity from performance
1:46.2	and rather attaching your identity and your efforts and your sense of motivation to effort itself
1:52.8	and to the process of enjoying learning and getting better at learning anything.
1:57.5	So today we are going to discuss what growth mindset is and what it isn't because it's often discussed in terms
2:03.8	that frankly are not accurate to the science. We will also talk about another mindset, which is the stress is enhancing mindset,
2:11.4	that it turns out can act synergistically with growth mindset such that when you combine growth mindset with the stress is enhancing mindset,
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