Dweck’s talk is about the concept of growth mindset and fixed mindset. How those two mindset determines success and the power of yet.
Lukianoff and Haidt’s ideas were about trigger warnings and microagressions. How in school campus those two terms are being used and effecting student’s behavior.
In Dweck’s TED talk and in Lukianoff and Haidt’s “The Coddling” article, they talk about the issues of having a fixed mindset and how it influences people to have hard time handling offensive conversations or past trauma.
In Dweck’s TED talk and in Lukianoff and Haidt’s “The Coddling” article, they talk about the issues of having a fixed mindset and how it influences people to have hard time handling offensive conversations or past trauma. In Dweck’s TED talk, she talks about the brain activity of people who have a fixed mindset and how it influences them when they face a problem. “On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There’s hardly any activity. They run from the error. They don’t engage with it” (01:51). This means that people with a fixed mindset will not try to solve or engage with the problem but rather run away from it. They do not like challenges and will not think they can do it but the opposite. On the other hand, in Lukianoff and Haid’s article, they talk about the trigger warnings and how people who have past trauma or feel offended from the lectures in class don’t need to complete the assignment. “ …students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might trigger a recurrence of past trauma” (Paragraph 2). This means that people who have experienced trauma or domestic violence can avoid assignments just because they have experienced it and are uncomfortable to hear in class. They do not think of trying to hear what the classes are about when being talked about the topic rather flee away from it. From both the Dweck’s TED talk, and “The Coddling” Article, we can see the example of how fixed mindset influences people’s behavior. People who have a fixed mindset will not get too far in the future just because they do what they believe in. They are not flexible to fix the problem and get away from it.
