Carol Dweck on Mindsets, Learning and Intelligence

Just came across an excel­lent Inter­view with Car­ol Dweck. Thank you Coert!  Car­ol Dweck is a pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­o­gy at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Last year she pub­lished a great book called Mind­set: The New Psy­chol­o­gy of Suc­cess, where she elab­o­rates on her (and ours) key mes­sage: the way you view your own intel­li­gence large­ly deter­mines how it…

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Are there herbal and vitamin supplements that will protect my memory?

Omega‑3 and omega‑6 fat­ty acids found in cold-water fish may be help­ful to long term brain health.Folic acid may also be help­ful to both cog­ni­tive func­tion and hearing.Ginkgo bilo­ba and DHEA do not appear to help your brain.There is still more research to be done and nev­er dis­miss the place­bo effect!Omega‑3 fat­ty acids found in cold-water fish such as mack­er­el, her­ring, salmon, and tuna look more promis­ing. Giu­liano Fontani’s work at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Siena in Italy asso­ci­at­ed omega‑3 sup­ple­men­ta­tion with improved atten­tion­al and phys­i­o­log­i­cal func­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly those involv­ing com­plex cor­ti­cal processing.

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