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Fixed mindset -- “You have a certain amount of intelligence and cannot do much to change it.”

Growth mindset -- “[W]e can get better at almost anything, provided we invest the necessary time and energy.”

A fixed mindset and a growth mindset are not mutually exclusive beliefs.

As I see it there are three dependent factors in accomplishing a complex task:

1.) intelligence -- raw computational power (impacted minimally by sleep/diet/use)

2.) knowledge -- data stored regarding a given task (impacted immensely by attention/research/exposure)

3.) wisdom -- the application of 1 on 2 (impacted greatly by experience/composure/analysis)

Knowledge, and to a lesser extent wisdom, can come as a result of investing time and energy. Wisdom is an amplifier of intelligence and knowledge; it can produce an order of magnitude increase in efficacy with very little change in either of the other two.

Both can be true...




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