Mindset

You can change your mindset

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Which mindset do you have? Answer these questions about intelligence. Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it. Questions 1 and 2 are the fixed mindset questions. Questions 3 and 4 reflect the growth mindset. Which […]

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The Need to Praise

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE NEXT WINTER I sat in Army fatigues somewhere near Anniston, Alabama, eating my supper out of a mess kit. The infantry training battalion that I had been assigned to was on bivouac. There was a cold drizzle of rain, and everything

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Estimating Your Abilities

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities. Recently, we set out to see who is most likely to do this. Sure, we found that people greatly misestimated their performance and their ability. But it was those with the fixed mindset

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The cost of A Divided Life

From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby Your dis-integration list will likely be different from mine, but the following loudly sound the siren: When these signals, among others, appear and I am alert to them and willing to attend to them, the gap between the

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