Questions About the Mindsets
Which mindset is correct? Although abilities are always a product of nature and nurture, a
great deal of exciting work is emerging in support of the growth mindset. New work in
psychology and neuroscience is demonstrating the tremendous plasticity of the brain—its
capacity to change and even reorganize itself when people put serious labor into developing
a set of skills. Other groundbreaking work (for example, by Anders Ericsson) is showing that
in virtually every field—sports, science, or the arts—only one thing seems to distinguish the
people we later call geniuses from their other talented peers. This one thing is called
practice.