SciShow
Why You Might Not Want to Be ‘The Smart Kid’
Whether or not you think of yourself as "the smart kid" might affect your grades a lot more than how smart you are.
TED Talks
Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: 3 tips to boost your confidence
When faced with a big challenge where potential failure seems to lurk at every corner, you’ve probably heard the advice, “Be more confident!” But where does confidence come from, and how can you get more of it? Here are three easy tips...
Curated Video
Time to Think: The Next Bend Process
The biggest question I hear from experienced project managers who are not yet at the top of their career is: 'How can I get more time to think?' It's easy for a project manager to get overly tied up with your day-to-day project issues....
Curated Video
Handling Criticism
Josh from OnwardWell guides you through essential strategies to build resilience and thrive amidst adversity. Learn how to manage stress effectively, maintain a positive outlook, and recognize your personal strengths from past...
Makematic
Accept and Learn From Mistakes
In this video, students will interview an elder, then create an illustrated postcard that shows what they learned about mistakes helping people to grow.
Seven Dimensions
Understanding Workforce Fluidity
Learn that fluidity occurs on a number of levels; Understand that individual fluidity is about being flexible and agile in ever-changing circumstances; Learn that workforce fluidity is about constantly changing work structures and being...
Curated Video
What is Peter Senge's Learning Organization?
Peter Senge wrote best-selling book, ‘The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization‘. This book has been rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books. And his big idea was the Learning...
Curated Video
Social Psychology
Five leading psychologists present aspects of the life and work of a professional social psychologist, and discuss some current issues in the field of social psychology. Featured are: Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill), Roy Baumeister...
Curated Video
The Educational Benefits of Chess
Elizabeth Spiegel, teacher and chess coach, discusses the wide range of educational benefits of chess, including how playing chess encourages self-study to unlock knowledge for children without the help of a teacher, how it teaches...
Curated Video
How To Silence The Inner Critic And Stop Being Mean To Yourself
Do you ever feel like you're your own worst enemy? That little voice in your head always seems to be putting you down. In this video I talk about how to silence that inner critic and start being kinder to yourself.
Curated Video
What is Grit and How Do You Get It? Give yourself a break if you don’t have it.
Grit is a trait that has been studied and determined to have two aspects: perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. It’s your ability to stick with something to the end even if it’s a hard road. Researchers have found that...
Curated Video
Locus of Control: What Is It & Why It Matters
In this video, I talk about the importance of your locus of control. What is it? How do you know where you lie on the spectrum of internal to external? And how do you become more internally focused?
Curated Video
Mindsets and Gender
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses the links between mindsets and gender.
Curated Video
Emotions For Kids: Naming and Responding
This is a social emotional video to help kids identify various emotions, identify emotions in themselves, and it gives kids tools on responding to those emotions.
Curated Video
The Sociology of Mindsets
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses the effect of community values on mindsets.
Curated Video
Teaching A Growth Mindset - Part II
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses two key aspects of how one should properly teach children to have a growth mindset.
Curated Video
Rigorous Mindsets
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes how adopting a growth mindset naturally leads to the highest academic standards.
Curated Video
Learning From Children
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes how she serendipitously discovered "growth-minded children" which launched her on an intriguing and influential research path.
Curated Video
Good and Bad Praise
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses the different ways to praise children, and their correspondingly different effects.
Curated Video
Getting Personal
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes her motivations to write her bestselling popular book Mindset, along with why she deliberately opted to take a more personal approach.
Curated Video
Changing Mindsets
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes two current research projects she is engaged in related to her work on mindsets: combatting school bullying and challenging preconceived stereotypes on the ground in the Middle East.
Curated Video
Cultural Mindsets
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck describes how, while she believes that her work on mindsets is universally relevant, understanding distinct values and practices is essential to getting the message across diverse cultures.
Curated Video
A Limited View
Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck describes the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset and describes how her primary school years were shaped by a rigorously fixed-mindset teacher who lined all students up by IQ ranking.