Heavily taught to students in my country. See, they even dedicated a booth to it during my school’s Open House:
Do you think of it as the North Star shaping your behaviour or do you dismiss it as positive psychobabble?
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172 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcoingecko 9h
It's a good idea. But with anything, balance is needed. One can get stressed at always trying to improve. We also need to relax and be ok with how things are. Both are needed. It's a tension that we need to try and understand. Always try to find the middle way.
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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 5h
You remind me about how sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing. Wait for all the insights to germinate
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiatbad 42m
Fuckinay, man. Just take a look at my cousin. He's broke and don't do shit.
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 6h
I was raised with a light version of this: you can do anything. Looking back from what is approaching mid-life, I feel that it wasn't terribly helpful.
At least in the version of US culture in which I was raised, it lacked an emphasis on how one made good decisions about what the "anything" was. It's one thing to tell kids they can achieve anything, but it's a much different thing to help them figure out what is worth trying to achieve.
With my own children, I'm trying to emphasis a "you can just do things" attitude (we don't need to wait for approval, or further education, or certification, or permission) and a lot of conversation about what things we think people do that are useful for the rest of the world.
I will also say I often feel like I'm failing at inculcating these ideas in them.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 4h
I read before that there was a point in time when adults in the US would give children trophies just for participation as a means of boosting the latter’s self-esteem. Does this still happen?
I think telling children that they can achieve anything without building up real competencies could be more detrimental than beneficial ‘cos their self-esteem isn’t based on anything concrete.
You may be doing better than you think. It sometimes takes years for one’s teachings to sink in a child’s mind. Maybe those conversations are being blended in their minds right now!
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 10h
I try to. I think it's a useful concept. There's probably a bit of an overemphasis of it in the educational world recently, but yeah I think it's a helpful frame of mind to strive for continuous improvement.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 5h
You get how I feel. I am increasingly feeling that the Growth Mindset has been brandished so much like a panacea that it is getting cliched for me
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 3h
Moderation is best thing in every decision taken in life.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 3h
i think i do , in general, but there are limits. By default, we can't 'grow' all the time. the better you get at something, the more demanding each % increase becomes, and at some point you might need to reassess if the juice is worth the squeeze.
things can get weird and toxic. people get too extreme. Gotta do your best, look for ways to improve, and be open to honest feedback.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4h
Positive psychobabble for me. It’s good to keep things based in reality. Let the kids have fun!
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