So, first of all, hello people, been neglecting this site a bit purposely in favor of becoming my first fitness trainer license and getting into the game.
I've also recently tried to start some books, but somehow didn't get into it, so this time just picked a book which has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while, but felt "too much right up my alley" to be sth new. But, let's get the ball rolling first and then switch to others #habitbuilding #starteasy or maybe never reading them #naval
ANYWAY
The book is: Mindset https://www.amazon.de/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322
So far, seems to be mostly about the difference between growth and fixed mindset. Growth mindset being an approach to life that you are "you", but their is a fair amount of how you yourself can influence the "you". People having a fixed mindset take their state is a given and without much power to change anything about themselves.
Meaning, the one side things you can become more intellectual, the other doesn't.
Meaning, the one side things you can change your behavior and responses to the world, the other things you are just the way you are, deal with it.
One of the first points the book is making - which is actually pretty obvious - is that they make a test for people to self assess them and how bad we are at it. However, only if looking at the average of the whole cohort. It was the fixed mindset people who were quite inaccurate, the growth mindset folks however seemed to be pretty accurate?
Haven't reached the conclusion part yet, but seems pretty obvious. If you live in a world where you can't change yourself, there is likely a fair amount of biases and insecurities playing into your self assessment, like selling yourself better, because that's all you got - or not looking stupid and fear of exposure.
The growth mindset however inherently means that you can change, so "you" are never done. That makes your current "you" a temporary state and every outside assessment is a feedback loop how you can improve. Hence, by that, you are out for learning and a base for learning is to decide what to learn and what to focus on, so knowing where you stand on different fronts and making assessments about yourself.
Now, not sure about the science behind, so taking it with a grain of salt to see this as a general rule, but as a first framework/approach that makes sense to me and then I am also sure that also people with a growth mindset have biases and insecurities making not all of them a Lucky Luke in self assessment.