Growth mindset
Vanya Mander Vanya Mander

Growth mindset

I would like to share a flash back that came ‘uninvited’ in my head recently that provoked a beautiful realisation.

My math teacher at school was perceived as a rather provocative, extremely clever and unpredictable person. He was always giving for our exams those crazy problems that only ‘Einstein’ brains would be able to solve.

As a believer of growth mindset, I had the tendency to put quite some effort in what I did, trusting I could learn anything.

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Are we living in a binary world…?!
Vanya Mander Vanya Mander

Are we living in a binary world…?!

Dear friend,

I have been looking around lately and what I see on regular basis is the same thing happening from centuries in the way we parent and we have been educated, in the marital relations, at the workplace and worldwide: binary thinking, opposites, sides...Why not, we have so many words for it: right or wrong, black or white, good or bad, guilty or innocent, rich or poor, tolerant or intolerant, clever or stupid, + or -, like or dislike...

However, when you express yourself in your language there are so many other words, when you walk around the streets you can see so many different colours...

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