I.Q., Mindset, and blue skies…

By way of reminder…

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What do you believe about your intelligence?  Have you ever taken one of those intelligence tests?  Are you afraid to discover your number?  Are you proud of your percentile ranking?

I’m in the middle of another book about the mind, this is the second one I’m reading as part of the fallout of devouring the book Drive, by Daniel Pink.  This one is titled Mindset, by Carol Dweck and has a strong resemblance to Leaned Optimism, by Dr. Seligman.  Yes, I’m weird.

What is even stranger, however, is that more than half of the minds out there, believe that their intelligence is fixed.  Loads of us simply believe that whatever we score, we score.  If we pretty much suck at school, or sales, or something else, that’s just the “hand we were dealt.”  If we have loads of debt, lots of kids, and a lousy job, well that’s just…

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