pjeby comments on It's okay to be (at least a little) irrational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 13 April 2009 01:06:46PM 1 point [-]

There are many, many things for which we need a constant rolling sense of "OK for all moments before now, but not OK for all moments from now into the future".

This is the "growth" mindset, actually. There's very little that it can't be usefully applied to.

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 April 2009 01:41:38PM 2 points [-]

This is the "growth" mindset, actually.

Where does that terminology come from?

Comment author: pjeby 13 April 2009 06:01:45PM 2 points [-]

Where does that terminology come from?

The work of Carol Dweck, see the book "Mindsets". I also recently wrote a blog post that ties her work together with Seligman's 3Ps/optimism model, and my own "pain/gain" and "successful/struggling" models, at: http://dirtsimple.org/2009/03/stumbling-on-success.html

I expect to be writing more on this soon, as this weekend I found a connection between the "fixed" mindset and "all-or-nothing" thinking in several areas I hadn't previously considered candidates for such.