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Andrew Huberman
Jul 17, 2023
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How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset
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Reward Effort, Not Identity Labels
“rewarding yourself for effort is the best way to improve performance.”
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21:59
Reward Effort, Not Identity Labels
Behaviors
“rewarding yourself for effort is the best way to improve performance.”
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33:48
Practice With Repetition and Error Correction
Behaviors
“that effort process of practicing a lot, many repetitions, analyzing why you didn't get something right, that can be engaged in a lot of different endeavors across domains”
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37:35
Get Enough Sleep
Behaviors
“I do encourage people to get enough sleep... We want to feel motivated. So fortunately, we try and get good sleep, which is essential. That really helps for daytime mood focus and alertness and thereby motivation.”
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51:03
Analyze Errors Cognitively
Behaviors
“if we think okay I'm going to step back from that and I'm going to just think about the error, I'm going to think about what led to the error, and I'm going to start devoting my attentional resources to that process”
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56:41
Exercise
Behaviors
“We hydrate, we exercise.”
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56:41
Hydrate
Behaviors
“We hydrate, we exercise.”
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56:44
Caffeine
Diet
“We might even drink caffeine as a way to increase our level of alertness and motivation... although I would say that the caffeine part is optional”
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57:44
Adopt a Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset
Behaviors
“There's this additional mindset which has to do with our mindset around stress and frustration itself that can allow us to access growth mindset far more easily. This mindset around stress actually has a name. It's called the stress is enhancing mindset.”
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1:27:20
Learn What Growth Mindset Is
Behaviors
“it simply means learning about what growth mindset is and how it differs from fixed mindset.”
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1:31:44
Seek Help and Input to Understand Performance
Behaviors
“one of the key ways to analyze our errors is to get help.”
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1:33:49
Write a Letter Teaching Growth Mindset and Stress Mindset
Behaviors
“is to take maybe a three by five card or an eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper and write out a letter as if you're writing a letter to the next person coming along, trying to get good at the thing that you're trying to get good at and explain to them what growth mindset is and how it differs from a fixed mindset.”
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1:35:23
Use Resistance Training
Behaviors
“Exercise with weights or resistance training of any kind, whether or not it's body weight or machines or free weights”
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1:37:16
Recover After Effortful Learning
Behaviors
“if you provide the adequate stress, which is hitting that point where you're not understanding the information, it's not sinking in, and you give yourself some time to recover”