Dr. Jamil Zaki: How to Cultivate a Positive, Growth-Oriented Mindset

540.413 - 568.008 Dr. Jamil Zaki

Thanks for bringing that up. Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite authors. And to me, that quote is enormously powerful because it expresses the idea of self-fulfilling prophecies. You know, there's this... subjective sense that people have, that our version of the world is the world, that we are passively taking in information, veridically, dispassionately. And in fact, that's not the case.