![]() ![]() Wonderful way to frame this journey, T, and thank you for it. Writers, how often do you grapple with ‘the tyranny of now’? How often do you encourage yourself on with ‘the power of yet’? What else do you tell yourself when it seems you can’t face the page one more day? You can also learn more about her ideas through her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.) Carol’s fantastic TED talk is just below. It might not be completed yet, but we are not yet at The End. This work of mine, this wonderful, tortuous work. Not when every day offers an opportunity for the growth mindset to kick in. Not when every day might offer a new word, sentence, page, scene, chapter, or bold idea. Nothing about the writer’s life is static. If you are in a moment with your work in progress that feels like a stuck moment, remember you are never truly stuck. To me, it’s one piece of the formula every writer must embrace in order to succeed. (I feel so strongly about that, that ‘Perseverance’ makes up one of the seven sections in our upcoming Author in Progress book.) Perseverance is one of my favorite words. If that doesn’t feel like a box, I don’t know what does. In Carol’s words, “Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now.” ![]() ![]() They were not smart enough, they thought. What about those students with a ‘fixed mindset’? As you might guess, they were devastated at their own perceived limits. These kids, the yet-kids, had what Carol termed a ‘growth mindset’ as opposed to a fixed one. After they’d grown, learned, lived a little more life. Would they feel helpless or cope somehow? Well, some of the kids did feel hopeless, helpless, in the face of a too-hard challenge, while others recognized their personal ‘yet’ no, they couldn’t yet rise to the test, but they knew they might be able to meet it later. But you will be, you can be just keep going.Ĭarol spoke, too, of a time when she purposefully gave a group of middle-school students a problem they weren’t yet ready for, wanting to gauge their response. What a revelation, to think like that - not in terms of failure, but rather instead of future potential. I recently watched a TED talk with Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, about educators and students and something she calls ‘the power of yet.’ Carol began her talk by referencing a school in Chicago whose teachers chose to give a grade of ‘not yet’ instead of the dreaded ‘F’ when students hadn’t passed a subject. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |