Reading | "Activate your learning brain": upgrade learning ability needs to cultivate growth thinking

"Activate your learning brain"

【Plus】 Steve Marson

Tang Jing translation

Zhanlu Culture | China Finance and Economic Publishing House published in August 2022

Do you think children with excellent academic performance are talented? self-discipline? diligent? Or is there any other factors? From the perspective of brain science, the author of this book interpret how the brain learns, what basic principles should be followed by effective learning methods, what do those children who have learned fast and have good grades, and cleverly take themselves dozens of tens of tens of tens of tens. The results of the year of neuroscience are condensed into the seven major, specific, and easy learning strategies.

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Why cultivate growth thinking?

Psychologist Carol Dewker has studied and put forward the concept of "growth thinking". Through research, compared to those who have fixed thinking (think can be natural), they have growth thinking People will gain more. This is because they rarely worry about whether they look smart, but put more energy on learning.

GM Jack Welch is a typical CEO with a growth thinking mode. When he selects talents, he only depends on whether the other party has a "growth thinking mode".

Why cultivate growth thinking? In terms of the principles of the brain and thinking, at least the following benefits.

1. Promote the activation of brain error correction mechanism

The more a person has a growth thinking, the more likely he is to correct the error, so as to improve his performance after errors. For people with fixed thinking and people with growth thinking, the impact of errors on them is different. In fact, people who believe that they can improve their errors often regard the errors as a tool for learning and improvement. They will think that errors mean that they need to focus more and pay more efforts to improve themselves and improve themselves. In contrast, a person with a fixed thinking and does not believe that he can improve, often regards errors as a proof that they cannot complete the task. In this way, errors will not only stimulate brain activation, but will inhibit brain activity.

Because the tendency of thinking has a considerable impact on the activation and learning of the brain error correction mechanism, we hope to try to cultivate the growth thinking of learners. But can the thinking tendency change? Although it may seem difficult, in fact, it is easier to affect a person's thinking tendency at least temporarily affecting its thinking tendency. A study shows that reading articles related to intelligence before performing tasks can significantly affect the activities of the brain.

In this study, the researchers asked the subject to read an article in advance. The article either thinks that intelligence is determined by genes and cannot be changed. It is considered that intelligence can develop under the stimulation of the environment and can be changed by hard work and learning. The text of the reading is randomly assigned to the subject.

Compared to the subjects of articles related to fixed thinking, the subjects related to growth -type thinking articles activated their brains more after errors. It must be pointed out here that the level of thinking tendency of the first two groups of participants is the same, so the research results of the two groups of participants should not be different. It is precisely because the articles that read before performing the task are biased towards fixed -type thinking or growth thinking that the result is huge differences. Therefore, the role of thinking tendencies is vulnerable to the role of activation error correction mechanism.

2. Improve the connectivity between the brain reward mechanism and the error correction mechanism

Researchers have also found that there is a correlation between the connected intensity between the thinking tendency and the tattoo and the front of the front frontal leaf cortex. In other words, the more a person is biased towards growth thinking, the stronger the connectivity between his two brain areas, that is, the more one person believes that he can improve his ability and intelligence, and the positive impact of his thinking tendency. The bigger.

By studying the gray density of the tattoo body and the frontal prefrontal cortex, some researchers have also discovered the differences and similarities between perseverance and thinking tendencies. The higher the gray density in the pattern, the higher the level of perseverance. This is consistent with the more developed the more perseverance. However, people also observe that the higher the level of perseverance, the lower the gray density in the frontal cortex of the front side of the back. However, this is not a negative indicator. The lower gray density may indicate that the frontal frontal cortex layer of the back is eliminated to eliminate the inappropriate brain connection, which has higher efficiency.

In addition, the reduction of gray density in this area may be related to the enhancement of certain cognitive capabilities. What's more interesting is that in the relationship between the gray density of the density of the dense density of the forehead and the front of the forehead, the thinking tendency seems to play a medium, but it is not the same as the pattern. Researchers believe that this result shows that the tendency of thinking may affect the error correction mechanism, rather than directly affecting the motivation, but the impact on error correction may eventually bring greater motivation and stronger perseverance. In other words, growth thinking can help cultivate perseverance.

In short, growth thinking can activate the brain error correction mechanism to a greater extent, which has a impact on learning. This positive impact will bring more success, which will affect the pattern and reward mechanism, and ultimately affect the long -term motivation and perseverance.

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Author: [Add] Steve Mason

Edit: Yuan Yuanlu

Editor in charge: Zhu Zilong

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