What Frame Of Mind Will You Choose?

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IDEAS
What Frame Of Mind Will You Choose?

Carol Dweck’s pioneering psychological theory on Growth Mindset (outlined in her seminal book, Mindset) empowers us to overhaul how we approach acquiring intelligence.

Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success but also whether we approach tasks with a fixed or growth mindset.

She differentiates between the two mindsets as follows:

A Growth Mindset believes that intelligence can be developed.

This leads to a desire to learn and, therefore, a tendency to…

• Embrace challenges.

• Persist in the face of setbacks.

• See effort as the path to mastery.

• Learn from criticism.

• And find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement, which gives them a greater sense of free will.

This is compared to a Fixed Mindset, which believes intelligence is static.

This leads to a desire to look smart and, therefore, a tendency to…

• Avoid challenges.

• Give up easily.

• See effort as fruitless.

• Ignore useful negative feedback.

• And feel threatened by the success of others.

As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential, which confirms their deterministic view of the world.

The simple question is then: What mindset will you choose?

RESOURCES
What I consumed this week…

…From around the web

Oppenheimer cleans up at the 2024 Oscars

Nolan’s biopic grabbed a mind-blowing seven Oscars, including:

1. Best picture

2. Best director

3. Best actor

4. Best supporting actor

5. Original score

6. Cinematography

7. Film editing

For me, this is a true piece of art that is getting paid its dues in the big time.

The cinematography, soundtrack, and performances are out of this world. They yank you into Oppenheimer’s world and don’t let you out until well after the film has ended.

Most of all, it’s an incredible story — one about the man who built the thing that could destroy the world and how he grapples with the consequences of his terrifyingly fantastic invention for the rest of his life.

Christopher Nolan and his team deserve all their praise — they’ve inspired the next generation of creators and inventors to push the boundaries of science even further for the benefit of humanity.  

Elon Musk and xAI to open source Grok

Queue the latest chapter in Elon vs Sam.

The move could prove the ultimate middle finger to OpenAI (or, as Elon called them, ClosedAI), but other incentives drive this move.

We’ve seen the “open-source our models” manoeuvre from companies like Meta and Mistral—primarily due to their inability to keep pace with the closed-source proprietary models like GPT-4, Gemini, and even Claude.

Grok-1 is comparable to Llama-2 70B and GPT-3.5, so this is Elon’s way of levelling the playing field with OpenAI—or, at least, trying to.

Apple Vision Pro used in surgery

A surgical team member at Cromwell Hospital in London used the device to assist with spinal surgery procedures.

It’s an incredible feat—AR/VR (or “spatial computing”) tech will undoubtedly make human tasks, like surgery, more precise and effective.

It’s great to see medical professionals pushing technological boundaries, as we mentioned last week.

There are already a host of medical apps being developed specifically for Vision Pro, indicating that this will only become more ubiquitous among other medical procedures.

Maybe, with a sophisticated enough app coupled with AI direction, we won’t even need doctors to perform our own medical procedures in the near future.

…From X

…From YouTube

An incredible podcast episode that gives actionable tips and tricks on how anyone can cultivate a Growth Mindset.

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THOUGHTS
Quote I’m Pondering

"For students with the growth mindset, it doesn’t make sense to stop trying."

— Carol Dweck

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— Luca