Mindset
10 items
- Compounding vs Additive Gains A compounding gain leaves you more capable than you were before the tutor, the tool, or the extra hours arrived. The gain stays after those inputs stop.
- Confidence Calibration Matching felt certainty to the evidence behind it, with two checks that run from outside the feeling, because the feeling certifies itself.
- Fixed vs Growth Mindset A mindset is a trained prediction about what a mistake will mean, and it retrains only on evidence, never on argument.
- Locus of Control: The Golden Rule of Learning Results are produced, not chosen: the rule that precedes every technique is to spend attention ruthlessly inside the cluster of acts that produce them.
- Loss Aversion Loss aversion is preferring not to lose what you have over gaining something new. In choosing a study method, loss aversion works as a bias toward the method
- Marginal Gains Marginal gains is a method for choosing what to improve next: the smallest change you are near-certain to pull off, chosen so it builds on the one before it. A
- Mindset, Condensed The mindset corpus stated as doctrine: difficulty read as a sign of where improvement can happen, mistakes as the way improvement happens, motivation used to
- Neuroticism Neuroticism is a stable pattern of high emotional reactivity, worry, self-doubt, and negative spirals. Under this pattern a threat seems bigger than it is,
- Perfectionism and Overthinking The label usually covers fear of failure optimising for comfort: the flip that keeps the standards and drops the freeze, and the chain that converts the loop