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Researchers now know that when people with math anxiety encounter numbers, a fear center in the brain is activated—the same fear center that lights up when people see snakes or spiders.
The result of fixed-brain thinking is that we have a nation (and world) filled with underachieving people who have been limited by ideas that could and should be changed.
If individuals within a school or company weren’t reaching their potential, it was not due to teaching methods or environmental factors, but to their limited brains.
The belief that only some people can be high-achievers is insidious and damaging and prevents all of us from reaching our potential.
One of the reasons that it can be damaging to receive the gifted label is that you do not expect to struggle, and when you do, it is absolutely devastating.
The times when we are struggling and making mistakes are the best times for brain growth.
It would be better if, instead, children saw a peer’s or sibling’s ability as a challenge and an opportunity—“Because they can do it, I can too.”
We need to recognize when we are having fixed-mindset moments and even to name them.
