I was interested in this article on what helps people learn from
the excellent blog, The Frontal Cortex, written by journalist
and science writer, Jonah Lehrer. "It turned out that those
subjects with a growth mindset were significantly better at
learning from their mistakes. As a result, they showed a spike
in accuracy immediately following an error. Most interesting,
though, was the EEG data, which demonstrated that those with a
growth mindset generated a much larger Pe signal, indicating
increased attention to their mistakes. (While those with an
extremely fixed mindset generated a Pe amplitude around five,
those with a growth mindset were closer to fifteen.) What's
more, this increased Pe signal was nicely correlated with
improvement after error, implying that the extra awareness was
paying dividends in performance. Because the subjects were
thinking about what they got wrong, they learned how to get it
right." Carole Dweck's research has a lot of appeal. Her recent
research has looked at what she calls a