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If You Have Ability,
Why Should You Need Learning?
Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on own, before any learning takes place. After all, if you have it you have and if you don't you don't. I see this all the time
amazing Out of all the applicants from all over the world, my department Columbia admitted six new graduate students a year. They all had a test scores, nearly perfect grades, and rave recommendations from eminent scholars Moreover, they'd been courted by the top grad schools
It took one day for some of them to feel like complete imposters Yesterday they were hotshots, today they're failures. Here's what happens They look at the faculty with our long list of publications. "Oh my God, 1 can't do that." They look at the advanced students who are submitting articles for publication and writing grant proposals. "Oh my God, I can't do that They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this yet. They forget the yet Isn't that what school is for, to teach? They're there to learn how to do
these things, not because they already know everything
I wonder if this is what happened to Janet Cooke and Stephen Glass They were both young reporters who skyrocketed to the top-on fabricated articles Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer Prize for her Washington Post articles about an eight-year-old boy who was a drug addict. The boy did not exist and she was later stripped of her prize Stephen Glass was the whiz kid of The New Republic, who seemed to have stories and sources reporters only dream of The sources did not exist and the stories were not true.
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