Mindshifting is recognizing and shifting from the mindsets that hold us back to the mindsets that push us forward. I write about mindsets, Mindshifting, learning, and education, with the hope that these posts give readers more power over their own lives and helps them give others, like their students, more power as well.
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In her Rethink newsletter, Rachel Botsman wrote about What we can learn from being wrong. Botsman showed how Danny Kahneman, Vincent van Gogh, Kathryn Shulz, Thomas Gilovich, Carol Tavis, Elliot Aronson, Adam Grant, Alistair Campbell, and Ann Frieman all demonstrate that learning is a product of being wrong, and that not being willing to be wrong leads to stagnation and mediocrity. Sweet things are made of this, who am I to disagree? I’m me, and I always find a way to disagree. Maybe growth and learning are more a product of curiosity and play than error. Human cognitive bias dictates that we perceive what we expect to perceive. When we are sure, when we are certain, all of us discard or ignore data and feedback that contradicts our reality. But when we are less sure, when we are curious and playful, then we can learn, adjust, and grow using data and feedback It’s not so much about being right or wrong, it’s being open minded, it’s being able to quiet the limbic survival mind and tap into the cognitive powers of our prefrontal cortex. It’s about Mindsets and MindShifting. Want to know how to do that? Here are two ways:
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Mindshifting is recognizing and shifting from the mindsets that hold us back to the mindsets that push us forward. I write about mindsets, Mindshifting, learning, and education, with the hope that these posts give readers more power over their own lives and helps them give others, like their students, more power as well.
I was brought up short this week by a post condemning values. Or rather, values statements by organizations. Paul Sweeney, on his Disruption Space blog, used an excerpt from his book Magnetic Nonsense: A Short History of Bullshit at Work and How to Make it Go Away, and gave some thought provoking examples of worthless values statements. Here are three. People who Act with integrity This was Ernst & Young’s number one value at the time the company knew some its auditors were cheating on exams...
The human toll from the 2025 California fires is heartbreaking. In my mind it rivals the damage from Katrina. So many people’s lives have been torn apart. I hope everyone does something, contributes something, to help out those who have been hurt. You can reach out personally. You can support the Red Cross. You can find GoFundMe pages like this one which is a recovery fund for Black residents of Altadena and Pasadena. Every one of us can find a way make a difference for someone. California...
Gurwinder Bhogal published an intriguing list of 25 Useful Ideas for 2025. A list of 25 is too many. Maybe my little brain can remember three. On the other hand, these are all thought-provoking. The 25th is on Sphexishness. Sphexishness is when you blindly follow a rule without checking if the rule works in the present situation. Gurwinder Bhogal has a great example. Ants follow each others’ pheromes which lead them to food and back home. But some ants may start moving in a circle, and all...