Limitless mind : learn, lead, and live without barriers / Jo Boaler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-238) and index.

Introduction: The six keys -- How neuroplasticity changes... everything -- Why we should love mistakes, struggle, and even failure -- Changing your mind, changing your reality -- The connected brain -- Why speed is out and flexibility is in! -- A limitless approach to collaboration -- Conclusion: Living without limits.

From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e. that we don't have "a math brain" or that we aren't "the creative type"). These damaging--and as new science has revealed, false--assumptions have influenced all of us at some time, affecting our confidence and willingness to try new things and limiting our choices, and, ultimately, our futures. Stanford University professor, bestselling author, and acclaimed educator Jo Boaler has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education. In Limitless Mind, she explodes these myths and reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. Her research proves that those who achieve at the highest levels do not do so because of a genetic inclination toward any one skill but because of the keys that she reveals in the book. Our brains are not "fixed," but entirely capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring. Want to be fluent in mathematics? Learn a foreign language? Play the guitar? Write a book? The truth is not only that anyone at any age can learn anything, but the act of learning itself fundamentally changes who we are, and as Boaler argues so elegantly in the pages of this book, what we go on to achieve.

We tend to accept established beliefs about our skillsets-- you don't have "a math brain" or your friend is "the creative type". Accepting these labels can be damaging, affecting our confidence and willingness to try new things, limiting our choices, and, ultimately, our futures. Boaler reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. She shows how our brains are capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring. The act of learning itself fundamentally changes who we are... and what we can go on to achieve.