Framework

Growth Mindset

The belief that abilities and skills can be developed through effort, learning, and feedback rather than being fixed traits.

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Growth Mindset

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  • Fiona Fung00:40:27

    … I'm all about like it's really great when you have a a metric that you can actually hill climb on, but always keep in mind that is you know, my whole growth mindset of is it still serving you? Always keep in mind like is that metric…

  • Zevi Arnovitz01:08:06

    … And then more on the psychology side Mindset by Carol Dweck, who coined the term growth mindset. It's just such an amazing book.

  • Tomer Cohen 2.000:50:45

    … ere is they have the agency, they're leaning into new things, they have the fluency, like they're already building new experiences and they have that growth mindset that they just want to get better, so it doesn't matter what they learn…

  • Howie Liu00:53:16

    … I think if you really have a growth mindset, and that's why one of our most important core values is growth mindset, right? If you really have that growth mindset, I think especially if you're ...

  • Peter Deng01:07:51

    … The second one I'd say is, I feel really strongly about this, which is the area that I look for most is growth mindset. And I actually came to this some point in my management career at Facebook, where I did make a mistake and hired…

What guests say about Growth Mindset

5 takeaways drawn from 14 episodes, each linked to the moment it was said.

Defined as malleable skill, not fixed talent

Tomer Cohen frames growth mindset, citing Carol Dweck, as the belief that skills and abilities are malleable and can be developed into expertise, craft and mastery rather than treated as fixed traits.

Tomer Cohen at 00:59:05

Colonna warns the label itself can turn rigid

Jerry Colonna pushes back that a growth mindset can be turned into a fixed mindset when people become attached to always having it, judging themselves as good or bad by whether they are displaying it; he argues it should be held loosely rather than nailed down as a rule.

Jerry Colonna at 01:05:18

Used as a hiring signal via self-critique

Jason Shah says the biggest thing he screens for in hiring is growth mindset, tested by asking candidates to reflect on a past experience and be vocally self-critical without becoming unproductively hard on themselves.

Jason Shah at 01:08:10

Scott models vulnerability to invite it in others

Kim Scott says she cultivates growth mindset in others by first sharing her own stories of acting like a jerk and the impact it had, then asking people for a similar story, arguing that this self-disclosure makes people feel lighter rather than judged.

Kim Scott

Batchu ties it to celebrating conclusive failure

Sri Batchu says growth experiments succeed roughly 30% of the time, so he builds a culture where people are not afraid to fail; he frames failure as acceptable only when a test is designed well enough to fail conclusively and produce real learning.

Failure at 00:33:38