"Activate Your Learning Brain"
[Add] by Steve Mason
Translated by Tang Jing
Zhanlu Culture |China Finance and Economics Press Published in August 2022
Do you think children with excellent academic performance depend on it Is it a talent? self-discipline? diligent? Or are there any other factors? The author of this book interprets how the brain learns from the perspective of brain science , what basic principles should be followed in effective learning methods , what did those children who learn fast and have good grades do the right thing, and cleverly Condensed my decades of neuroscience research results into seven operational, specific, and easy-to-understand learning strategies.
Why should we cultivate growth thinking?
Psychologist Carol Dweck once studied and proposed the concept of "growth thinking". Through research, it has proved that compared with those with fixed thinking (those who think talents are born), they have growth thinking. People will gain more. This is because they rarely worry about whether they look smart or not, but focus more on learning.
General Company Jack Welch is a typical CEO with a growth mindset. When he chooses talents, he only sees whether the other party has a "growth thinking model".
Why should we cultivate growth thinking? From the perspective of brain and thinking principles, there are at least the following benefits.
1. Promote the activation of brain error correction mechanism
The more a person has a growth mindset, the more likely he is to correct his mistakes, thereby improving his performance after making mistakes. has different impacts on people with fixed thinking and those with growth thinking. In fact, people who believe they can improve often regard the mistakes they make as tools for learning and improvement. They will think that making mistakes means they need to focus more and put in more effort to improve themselves and improve themselves. In contrast, a person who has a fixed mindset and does not believe that he can improve will often regard mistakes as a proof of their inability to complete the task. In this way, the error will not only not stimulate brain activation, but will instead inhibit brain activity.
Since thinking tendencies have a considerable impact on the activation and learning of brain error correction mechanisms, we hope to try to cultivate learners' growth thinking. But is it possible for thinking tendencies to change? Although it may seem difficult, in fact, is relatively easy to affect a person's thinking tendency, at least temporarily. A study shows that reading articles about intelligence before performing tasks can significantly affect brain activity.
In this study, the researchers asked the subjects to read an article in advance, either thinking that intelligence is determined by genes and cannot be changed, or thinking that intelligence can be developed under the stimulation of the environment and can be changed through hard work and learning. The text read was randomly assigned to the subjects.
Compared with subjects who read articles related to fixed thinking, subjects who read articles related to growth thinking activated their brains more after making mistakes. It must be pointed out here that the initial two groups of subjects had the same level of thinking tendency, so there should not be any difference in the research results of the two groups of subjects. It is precisely because the articles read before performing tasks tend to be fixed or growth-oriented thinking that huge differences in results are caused. Therefore, the role of thinking tendency in activating error correction mechanisms is easily affected.
2, improve connectivity between brain reward mechanisms and error correction mechanisms
Researchers also found that there is a correlation between thinking tendencies and the intensity of connectivity between the striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In other words, the more a person tends to be growing thinking, the stronger the connectivity between these two brain regions is, that is, The more a person believes that he can improve his abilities and intelligence, and the positive thinking tendency The greater the impact.
By studying the gray matter density of the striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, some researchers have also discovered differences and similarities between perseverance and thinking tendencies.The higher the density of gray matter in the striatum, the higher the level of perseverance, which is consistent with the view that the more perseverance the human striatum is more developed. However, it has also been observed that the higher the level of perseverance, the lower the density of gray matter in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. However, this is not a negative indicator, and lower gray matter density may indicate that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex eliminates inappropriate brain connections, resulting in higher efficiency.
In addition, the reduction in gray matter density in this area may be related to the enhancement of some cognitive abilities. More interestingly, thinking tendencies seem to play a media role in the relationship between perseverance and gray matter density in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, but not for the striatum. The researchers believe that this result suggests that thinking tendencies may affect the error correction mechanism more than directly affect motivation, but the impact on error correction may ultimately bring greater motivation and stronger perseverance. In other words, growth thinking may help cultivate perseverance.
In short, growth thinking can activate brain error correction mechanisms to a greater extent, thus having an impact on learning. This positive impact leads to more success, which in turn affects the striatum and reward mechanisms, and ultimately affects long-term motivation and perseverance.
Author: [Grand] Steve Mason
Editor: Yuan Yulu
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