A one-minute clip of Jo Boaler's TED talk at Stanford on April 24, 2016.

And in fact in their MRI scans, they found that when people made a mistake, synapse is fired.

When they got work correct, less synapses fires.

So making mistakes is really good and we want students to know this, but they found something else that was pretty incredible.

This image shows you the voltage maps of people's brains, and what you can see here is that people with a growth mindset who believe that they had unlimited potential, they could learn anything.


Speaker 0: And in fact in their MRI scans, they found that when people made a mistake, synapse is fired. When they got work correct, less synapses fires. So making mistakes is really good and we want students to know this, but they found something else that was pretty incredible. This image shows you the voltage maps of people's brains, and what you can see here is that people with a growth mindset who believe that they had unlimited potential, they could learn anything. Our beliefs and our feelings.

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