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	9 <title>Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz)</title>
	10 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/</link>
	11 <description>"capture what you experience and sort it out; only in t…
	12 <dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
	13 <dc:creator>Aaron Swartz</dc:creator>
	14 <items>
	15 <rdf:Seq>
	16 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk" />
	17 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplai…
	18 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi" />
	19 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/geremiah" />
	20 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/anders" />
	21 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio" />
	22 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/optimalbias"…
	23 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis" …
	24 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/batmanbegins…
	25 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck" />
	26 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/burketdkr" />
	27 <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/stepback" />
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	29 </items>
	30 </channel>
	31 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk">
	32 <title>What Happens in <em>The Dark Knight</em></title>
	33 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk</link>
	34 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	35 <p><em>Spoilers, obviously.</em></p>
	36
	37 <p>As we’ve discussed, in <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/b…
	38
	39 <p>From the start, the city is torn about how to handle the Batman, who …
	40
	41 <p>Dent is doing his own part to lock up the criminals, working inside t…
	42
	43 <p>Dent decides the only way to win is to go big — really big. He …
	44
	45 <p>But, as the mayor explains, Dent isn’t just taking on his own s…
	46
	47 <p>Just as Dent is frustrated with the justice system, the Joker is frus…
	48
	49 <p>The film opens with the Joker hiring five men to rob a mob bank: Dope…
	50
	51 <p>Batman eventually tries to track down the Joker by threatening the ga…
	52
	53 <p>Alfred sees this quickly, because it reminds him of a story from his …
	54
	55 <blockquote>
	56 <p>I was in Burma. A long time ago. My friends and I were working for …
	57 </blockquote>
	58
	59 <p>Note the parallels. In Alfred’s story the entire status quo (in…
	60
	61 <p>Sure enough, when the Joker finally does get his hands on the money, …
	62
	63 <p>Meanwhile, Dent’s ethical compromises begin to grow and grow. W…
	64
	65 <p>In a climactic scene, the Batman finally confronts the Joker in the m…
	66
	67 <p>When he comes to, the Joker tells Batman that despite nominally worki…
	68
	69 <blockquote>
	70 <p>To them you’re a freak like me. They just need you right now.…
	71
	72 <p>You have these rules. And you think they’ll save you. ……
	73 </blockquote>
	74
	75 <p>Gordon arrests the Joker and takes him to the major crimes unit, only…
	76
	77 <p>The Joker has kidnapped both Dent and Rachel and set them both to blo…
	78
	79 <p>Reese, one of Bruce Wayne’s employees goes on TV and threatens …
	80
	81 <p>At the hospital, the Joker explains things to Dent:</p>
	82
	83 <blockquote>
	84 <p>Do I really look like a guy with a plan, Harvey? I don’t have…
	85
	86 <p>It’s the schemers who put you where you are. You were a schem…
	87 </blockquote>
	88
	89 <p>This pushes Dent over the edge. He starts going after everyone respon…
	90
	91 <p>Batman, meanwhile, is also crossing lines. In his attempt to find the…
	92
	93 <p>The Joker scares the city onto its two ferries. Once the ferries are …
	94
	95 <p>The Joker also took a busload of people from the hospital to the Prew…
	96
	97 <p>(Batman saves the hostages (dressed as thugs) and stops the SWAT team…
	98
	99 <p>He then goes to rescue Gordon, who is trying to stop Dent from killin…
	100
	101 <blockquote>
	102 <p>You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. You thought…
	103 </blockquote>
	104
	105 <p>Throughout the film, we’ve seen various desperate attempts to c…
	106
	107 <p>And the crazy thing is that it works! At the end of the movie, the Jo…
	108
	109 <p>The movie concludes by emphasizing that Batman must become the villai…
	110
	111 <p>Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it&#8217…
	112
	113 <div class="footnotes">
	114 <hr />
	115 <ol>
	116
	117 <li id="fn:pb">
	118 <p>I’m actually not sure which game this is supposed to be. It&#82…
	119 </li>
	120
	121 <li id="fn:fn1">
	122 <p>These two sentences are in the shooting script but got cut from the f…
	123 </li>
	124
	125 <li id="fn:f">
	126 <p>This also explains why the law-and-order crowd seems so miffed about …
	127 </li>
	128
	129 </ol>
	130 </div>
	131
	132 ]]></content:encoded>
	133 <dc:date>2012-11-01T13:15:49-00:00</dc:date>
	134 </item>
	135 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained">
	136 <title>How Looper Works</title>
	137 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained</link>
	138 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	139 <p>First off, go see <em>Looper</em>. One of the best movies I’ve …
	140
	141 <p>OK, let’s start by explaining how a looper’s career is su…
	142
	143 <p>But time travel doesn’t eliminate free will. We see this with t…
	144
	145 <p>But other characters have free will too: young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Lev…
	146
	147 <p>In the first main timeloop (shown second in the movie, via a flashbac…
	148
	149 <p>But on one of these runs through the loop, old Joe manages to overpow…
	150
	151 <p>Which timeloop are we watching? Well, we’re watching the story …
	152
	153 <p>But Flashback Joe is not the protagonist of the film. The protagonist…
	154
	155 <p>Next week we’ll explain <em>Primer</em>.</p>
	156
	157 ]]></content:encoded>
	158 <dc:date>2012-10-08T22:35:14-00:00</dc:date>
	159 </item>
	160 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi">
	161 <title>Fix the machine, not the person</title>
	162 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi</link>
	163 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	164 <p><em>This post is part seven of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerv…
	165
	166 <p>The General Motors plant in Fremont was a disaster. “Everything…
	167
	168 <p>“One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in t…
	169
	170 <p>When management tried to punish workers, workers tried to punish them…
	171
	172 <p>In 1982, GM finally closed the plant. But the very next year, when To…
	173
	174 <p>Toyota flew this rowdy crew to Japan, to see an entirely different wa…
	175
	176 <p>Three months after they got back to the US and reopened the plant, ev…
	177
	178 <hr />
	179
	180 <p>An organization is not just a pile of people, it’s also a set o…
	181
	182 <p>And when the system isn’t working, it doesn’t make sense …
	183
	184 <p>If you have goals in life, you’re probably going to need some s…
	185
	186 <p>For example, let’s say you want to build a treehouse in the bac…
	187
	188 <p>Or let’s say you really want to get in shape, but never remembe…
	189
	190 <hr />
	191
	192 <p>In 1967, Edward Jones and Victor Harris gathered a group of college s…
	193
	194 <p>Jones and Harris weren’t expecting any shocking results here; t…
	195
	196 <p>So they tried again. This time they explained the essay was written f…
	197
	198 <p>So they tried a third time — this time recording Jim on tape al…
	199
	200 <p>This was an extreme case, but we make the same mistake all the time. …
	201
	202 <hr />
	203
	204 <p>Our natural reaction when someone screws up is to get mad at them. Th…
	205
	206 <p>But this explanation doesn’t really add up. Do you think the wo…
	207
	208 <p>They’re just like you, when you’re trying to exercise but…
	209
	210 <p>The same is true for other people. Chances are, they don’t <em>…
	211
	212 <p>At the old GM plant, in Fremont, workers were constantly screwing thi…
	213
	214 <p>At the Toyota plant, they didn’t just let things go. There was …
	215
	216 <p>You saw the results all over the factory: mats and cushions for the w…
	217
	218 <p>When you’re upset with someone, all you want to do is change th…
	219
	220 <p>No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, c…
	221
	222 <form method="post" action="http://mailer.aaronsw.com/subscribe"><p>Emai…
	223
	224 <p>Or just <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=aarons…
	225
	226 <div class="footnotes">
	227 <hr />
	228 <ol>
	229
	230 <li id="fn:tal">
	231 <p>This story has been told several places, but the quotes here are from…
	232 </li>
	233
	234 <li id="fn:dalio">
	235 <p>Some of the concepts and terms here were inspired by Ray Dalio, <em><…
	236 </li>
	237
	238 <li id="fn:jh">
	239 <p>Edward E. Jones and Victor A. Harris, “<a href="http://dx.doi.o…
	240 </li>
	241
	242 <li id="fn:lr">
	243 <p>Lee Ross, “The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings: Dis…
	244 </li>
	245
	246 </ol>
	247 </div>
	248
	249 ]]></content:encoded>
	250 <dc:date>2012-09-25T14:21:42-00:00</dc:date>
	251 </item>
	252 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/geremiah">
	253 <title>Cherish mistakes</title>
	254 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/geremiah</link>
	255 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	256 <p><em>This post is part six of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerve<…
	257
	258 <p>This is a tale of two nonprofits.</p>
	259
	260 <p>At one, they hate making mistakes. How else could it be? “We&#8…
	261
	262 <p>It’s only natural — you know you’re going to get in…
	263
	264 <p>At the other nonprofit, they have a very different attitude. You noti…
	265
	266 <p>And it goes on to discuss mistakes big and small, core and peripheral…
	267
	268 <p>It’s not that this group likes making mistakes — you can …
	269
	270 <hr />
	271
	272 <p>I <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck">wrote before</a> abou…
	273
	274 <p><em>Mistakes are our friend.</em> They can be an exasperating friend …
	275
	276 <p>That’s a hard attitude to take toward mistakes — they&#82…
	277
	278 <p>If we try to ignore them, they’ll keep nagging at us. We’…
	279
	280 <p>The trick is to confront the mistake, fess up to what went wrong, and…
	281
	282 <p>Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of the Toyota car company, developed a te…
	283
	284 <p>Why was the alternator belt loose? Because it hadn’t been put o…
	285
	286 <p>Aha! There, on the fifth why, we find the real cause of the mistake. …
	287
	288 <hr />
	289
	290 <p>The last time I wrote about two nonprofits, someone commented to say …
	291
	292 <p>I’ve <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis">written…
	293
	294 <p>By forcing yourself to write it down, to keep a log of the problems y…
	295
	296 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="nummi">Fix the machine…
	297
	298 <div class="footnotes">
	299 <hr />
	300 <ol>
	301
	302 <li id="fn:d2">
	303 <p>Carol Dweck, <em>Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality…
	304 </li>
	305
	306 </ol>
	307 </div>
	308
	309 ]]></content:encoded>
	310 <dc:date>2012-09-17T15:55:03-00:00</dc:date>
	311 </item>
	312 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/anders">
	313 <title>Confront reality</title>
	314 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/anders</link>
	315 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	316 <p><em>This post is part five of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerve…
	317
	318 <div class="epigraph"><p>We are all capable of believing things which we…
	319
	320 <p>If you want to understand experts, you need to start by finding them.…
	321
	322 <p>In some fields it was easy: in chess, for example, great players can …
	323
	324 <p>Take punditry. In his giant 20-year study of expert forecasting, Phil…
	325
	326 <p>As you might expect, pundits and therapists aren’t fans of thes…
	327
	328 <p>Compare them to the chess grandmaster. If you try to tell the chess g…
	329
	330 <p>Synthesizing hundreds of these studies, K. Anders Ericsson concluded …
	331
	332 <p>In chess, for example, you pretty quickly discover whether you made a…
	333
	334 <hr />
	335
	336 <p>I’ve noticed very ambitious people often fall into this sort of…
	337
	338 <p>But being great isn’t as easy as just picking a hard goal &#821…
	339
	340 <p>The trick is to set yourself lots of small challenges along the way. …
	341
	342 <p>And it’s important that you test for the right thing. If you&#8…
	343
	344 <hr />
	345
	346 <p>One of the biggest problems in writing self-help books is getting peo…
	347
	348 <p>The irony, of course, is that the books are totally useless unless yo…
	349
	350 <p>Don’t let that happen to you. Go out and test yourself today: p…
	351
	352 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="geremiah">Cherish mist…
	353
	354 <div class="footnotes">
	355 <hr />
	356 <ol>
	357
	358 <li id="fn:tet">
	359 <p>Philip Tetlock, <em>Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Ca…
	360 </li>
	361
	362 <li id="fn:dawes">
	363 <p>Robyn M. Dawes, <em>House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Buil…
	364 </li>
	365
	366 <li id="fn:strupp">
	367 <p>Hans H. Strupp and Suzanne W. Hadley, “<a href="http://dx.doi.o…
	368 </li>
	369
	370 <li id="fn:t2">
	371 <p>Tetlock, “Reading Tarot,” 67. <a href="#fnref:t2" re…
	372 </li>
	373
	374 <li id="fn:anders">
	375 <p>K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Römer, &#8220…
	376 </li>
	377
	378 <li id="fn:a2">
	379 <p>Ericsson, “Role,” 367. <a href="#fnref:a2" rev="foot…
	380 </li>
	381
	382 <li id="fn:ss">
	383 <p>Chris Macleod, “<a href="http://www.succeedsocially.com/epiphan…
	384 </li>
	385
	386 </ol>
	387 </div>
	388
	389 ]]></content:encoded>
	390 <dc:date>2012-09-09T14:16:23-00:00</dc:date>
	391 </item>
	392 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio">
	393 <title>Lean into the pain</title>
	394 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio</link>
	395 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	396 <p><em>This post is part four of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerve…
	397
	398 <p>When you first begin to exercise, it’s somewhat painful. Not wi…
	399
	400 <p>If that was all that happened, you’d probably never do it. It&#…
	401
	402 <p>And knowing this makes all the difference. Indeed, we come to see the…
	403
	404 <p>Few people realize it, but psychological pain works the same way. Mos…
	405
	406 <p>The problem is that the topics that are most painful also tend to be …
	407
	408 <p>Ray Dalio writes:</p>
	409
	410 <blockquote>
	411 <p>It is a fundamental law of nature that to evolve one has to push on…
	412 </blockquote>
	413
	414 <p>Yes it’s painful, but the trick is to make that mental shift. T…
	415
	416 <p>Pretty soon, when you start noticing something that causes you psychi…
	417
	418 <p>The trick is: when you start feeling that psychological pain coming o…
	419
	420 <hr />
	421
	422 <p>In agile software development, there’s a phrase: If it hurts, d…
	423
	424 <p>For example, imagine Jane and Joan are working on a software project …
	425
	426 <p>Maybe you’ve had this problem, either with code or with text do…
	427
	428 <p>They keep putting the merge off, and every time they do the task gets…
	429
	430 <p>The agile approach, however, is to do the opposite: merging hurts, so…
	431
	432 <p>The same principle shows up all across software development: from tes…
	433
	434 <p>And I don’t think it’s limited to software. I think the s…
	435
	436 <hr />
	437
	438 <p>Of all the self-improvement tricks I’ve learned, this one was b…
	439
	440 <p>Sure, there were somethings, over there, that I wished I was better a…
	441
	442 <p>I’d learned <a href="semmelweis">not to shrink from hard truths…
	443
	444 <p>Now I realize this is a bogus argument: it’s not that the pain …
	445
	446 <p>Do this enough times and your whole outlook on life begins to change.…
	447
	448 <p>Tackling something big like this is terrifying; it’s far too mu…
	449
	450 <p>OK, take a break. But when you’re ready, come back to it, and s…
	451
	452 <p>Next time you start feeling that feeling, that sense of pain from dee…
	453
	454 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="anders">Confront reali…
	455
	456 <div class="footnotes">
	457 <hr />
	458 <ol>
	459
	460 <li id="fn:d">
	461 <p>Ray Dalio, <em><a href="http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Pri…
	462 </li>
	463
	464 <li id="fn:f">
	465 <p>I first heard this phrase at a ThoughtWorks training. See also Martin…
	466 </li>
	467
	468 <li id="fn:s">
	469 <p>See, for example, Derek Sivers, “<a href="http://sivers.org/com…
	470 </li>
	471
	472 </ol>
	473 </div>
	474
	475 ]]></content:encoded>
	476 <dc:date>2012-09-01T13:31:08-00:00</dc:date>
	477 </item>
	478 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/optimalbias">
	479 <title>What are the optimal biases to overcome?</title>
	480 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/optimalbias</link>
	481 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	482 <p><em>This is a bonus post for my series <a href="http://www.aaronsw.co…
	483
	484 <p>I’ve noticed that some people have complimented my series <a hr…
	485
	486 <p>You might start with the most famous ones, which tend to be the ones …
	487
	488 <p>Take their famous anchoring experiment, in which they showed the spin…
	489
	490 <p>Most academic work on irrationality has followed in K&T’s f…
	491
	492 <p>But if you look at the average person and ask why they aren’t g…
	493
	494 <p>One of the things that struck me was watching Eliezer Yudkowsky, one …
	495
	496 <p>But why? Why is Luke so much better at getting what Eliezer wants tha…
	497
	498 <p>No, it’s because Luke did what seems like common sense: he boug…
	499
	500 <p>So if you’re interested in closing the gap, it seems like the s…
	501
	502 ]]></content:encoded>
	503 <dc:date>2012-08-29T15:39:01-00:00</dc:date>
	504 </item>
	505 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis">
	506 <title>Look at yourself objectively</title>
	507 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis</link>
	508 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	509 <p><em>This post is part three of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerv…
	510
	511 <p>In the 1840s, hospitals were dangerous places. Mothers who went in to…
	512
	513 <p>Ignaz Semmelweis, an assistant at the First Clinic, couldn’t be…
	514
	515 <p>To test this, he insisted the doctors begin washing their hands with …
	516
	517 <p>You’d think doctors would be thrilled by this incredible discov…
	518
	519 <p>Semmelweis turned to alcohol and his behavior became increasingly err…
	520
	521 <hr />
	522
	523 <p>Why did doctors so stubbornly reject Ignaz Semmelweis? Well, imagine …
	524
	525 <p>We all know people don’t like to hear bad news about themselves…
	526
	527 <p>It doesn’t help much when our friends point out what we did wro…
	528
	529 <p>But, as Semmelweis showed, this is a dangerous habit. Sure, it’…
	530
	531 <hr />
	532
	533 <p>Semmelweis was defeated about as much as a man can be defeated. But n…
	534
	535 <p>Try as you might, you can’t beat reality. Semmelweis was right:…
	536
	537 <p>But imagine if they had. When you’re being attacked, conceding …
	538
	539 <p>When Oprah started defending fabulist James Frey, she was savaged by …
	540
	541 <p>Imagine the same thing in your own life. If your boss started taking …
	542
	543 <p>In moments of great emotional stress, we revert to our worst habits: …
	544
	545 <hr />
	546
	547 <p>Even if seeing ourselves objectively is the best option, all our natu…
	548
	549 <p>But if she did — would you even know? We see the world from our…
	550
	551 <hr />
	552
	553 <p>Looking at ourselves objectively isn’t easy. But it’s ess…
	554
	555 <p><em>Embrace your failings.</em> Be willing to believe the worst about…
	556
	557 <p><em>Studiously avoid euphemism.</em> People try and sugarcoat the tou…
	558
	559 <p><em>Reverse your projections.</em> Every time you see yourself compla…
	560
	561 <p><em>Look up, not down.</em> It’s always easy to make yourself l…
	562
	563 <p><em>Criticize yourself.</em> The main reason people don’t tell …
	564
	565 <p><em>Find honest friends.</em> There are some people who are just cong…
	566
	567 <p><em>Listen to the criticism.</em> Since it’s so rare to find fr…
	568
	569 <p><em>Take the outside view.</em> As I said before, we’re always …
	570
	571 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="dalio">Lean into the p…
	572
	573 <div class="footnotes">
	574 <hr />
	575 <ol>
	576
	577 <li id="fn:fn1">
	578 <p>“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis">Ignaz …
	579 </li>
	580
	581 <li id="fn:mwm">
	582 <p>Carol Tavris and Elliot Aaronson, <em><a href="http://books.theinfo.o…
	583 </li>
	584
	585 <li id="fn:mwm2">
	586 <p><em>Mistakes Were Made</em>, ch. 8. A larger study of public companie…
	587 </li>
	588
	589 </ol>
	590 </div>
	591
	592 ]]></content:encoded>
	593 <dc:date>2012-08-18T16:52:37-00:00</dc:date>
	594 </item>
	595 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/batmanbegins">
	596 <title>What Happens in <em>Batman Begins</em></title>
	597 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/batmanbegins</link>
	598 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	599 <p><em>Warning: Naturally, spoilers follow — for both</em> Batman …
	600
	601 <p>We begin in the 1980s, when the global forces of evil have decided to…
	602
	603 <p>The difference is that in the Batman universe, Gotham’s leading…
	604
	605 <p>The murder of the billionaire shocks the surviving billionaires, lead…
	606
	607 <p>As the billionaires retreat from power, organized crime steps in, tak…
	608
	609 <p>But a few rogue elements in the police and DA’s office refuse t…
	610
	611 <p>His search concludes in a far eastern terrorist training camp, which …
	612
	613 <p>Bruce, still haunted by the execution of his parents, refuses to beco…
	614
	615 <p>In doing so, he begins a reversal of history that eventually culminat…
	616
	617 <div class="footnotes">
	618 <hr />
	619 <ol>
	620
	621 <li id="fn:fn1">
	622 <p><em>Batman Begins</em> is very clearly the mirror image of <a href="h…
	623 </li>
	624
	625 <li id="fn:rg">
	626 <p>Yes, in this trilogy 9/11 really was an inside job, from the same fol…
	627 </li>
	628
	629 <li id="fn:gfe">
	630 <p>Democrats, Republicans, organized crime, or billionaire financiers &#…
	631 </li>
	632
	633 <li id="fn:rob">
	634 <p>Exactly, right down to how Robin (who see as a small boy in the first…
	635 </li>
	636
	637 </ol>
	638 </div>
	639
	640 ]]></content:encoded>
	641 <dc:date>2012-08-22T04:10:14-00:00</dc:date>
	642 </item>
	643 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck">
	644 <title>Believe you can change</title>
	645 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck</link>
	646 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	647 <p><em>This post is part two of the series <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerve<…
	648
	649 <p>Carol Dweck was obsessed with failure. You know how some people just …
	650
	651 <p>In a 1978 study with Carol Diener, she gave kids various puzzles and …
	652
	653 <p>But the puzzles kept coming — and they kept getting harder. &#8…
	654
	655 <p>The kids couldn’t take it anymore. “I give up,” the…
	656
	657 <p>Now the kids started getting silly, almost as if they could hide thei…
	658
	659 <p>Maybe these results aren’t surprising. If you’ve ever tri…
	660
	661 <p>But what shocked her — and changed the course of her career &#8…
	662
	663 <p>Dweck, like many adults, had learned to hide her frustration and ange…
	664
	665 <p>But what she found was radically different. The successful kids didn&…
	666
	667 <p>Instead of complaining it wasn’t fun when the puzzles got harde…
	668
	669 <p><em>What was wrong with them?</em></p>
	670
	671 <hr />
	672
	673 <p>The difference, Dweck discovered, was one of mindset. Dweck had alway…
	674
	675 <p>The successful kids believed precisely the opposite: that everything …
	676
	677 <p>It took a seventh-grader to explain it to her: “I think intelli…
	678
	679 <p>In the fixed mindset, success comes from proving how great you are. E…
	680
	681 <p>In the growth mindset, success comes from growing. Effort is what it&…
	682
	683 <p>Fixed-mindset people feel smart when they don’t make mistakes, …
	684
	685 <hr />
	686
	687 <p>As Dweck continued her research, she kept finding this difference in …
	688
	689 <p>But Dweck applied a growth mindset to the question of mindset —…
	690
	691 <p>She herself changed, converting from a fervent fixed-mindsetter, alwa…
	692
	693 <hr />
	694
	695 <p>The first step to getting better is believing you <em>can</em> get be…
	696
	697 <p>Now when I first heard about this work, I just thought: that’s …
	698
	699 <p>For example, I used to think I was introverted. Everyone had always t…
	700
	701 <p>But as I’ve grown, I’ve found that’s hardly the end…
	702
	703 <p>Growth mindset has become a kind of safe word for my partner and I. W…
	704
	705 <p>Just like life itself.</p>
	706
	707 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="semmelweis">Look at yo…
	708
	709 <div class="footnotes">
	710 <hr />
	711 <ol>
	712
	713 <li id="fn:dweck78">
	714 <p>Carol I. Diener and Carol S. Dweck, “<a href="http://dx.doi.org…
	715 </li>
	716
	717 <li id="fn:mindset1">
	718 <p>Carol Dweck, <em>Mindset: The New Psychology of Success</em> (2007), …
	719 </li>
	720
	721 <li id="fn:dweckleggett">
	722 <p>Carol S. Dweck and Ellen L. Leggett, “<a href="http://dx.doi.or…
	723 </li>
	724
	725 <li id="fn:muellerdweck">
	726 <p>Claudia M. Mueller and Carol Dweck, “<a href="http://dx.doi.org…
	727 </li>
	728
	729 <li id="fn:m2">
	730 <p><em>Mindset</em>, 17. <a href="#fnref:m2" rev="footnote">↩…
	731 </li>
	732
	733 <li id="fn:m3">
	734 <p><em>Mindset</em>, 225. <a href="#fnref:m3" rev="footnote">&#8617…
	735 </li>
	736
	737 <li id="fn:site">
	738 <p>Carol Dweck, “<a href="http://mindsetonline.com/changeyourminds…
	739 </li>
	740
	741 </ol>
	742 </div>
	743
	744 ]]></content:encoded>
	745 <dc:date>2012-08-18T14:59:04-00:00</dc:date>
	746 </item>
	747 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/burketdkr">
	748 <title>Edmund Burke Explains <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em></title>
	749 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/burketdkr</link>
	750 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	751 <p>From Corey Robin’s fantastic book <em><a href="http://books.the…
	752
	753 <blockquote>
	754 <p>Great power, [Burke] suggests in <em>The Sublime and the Beautiful<…
	755
	756 <p>In the <em>Reflections</em>, Burke suggests that the problem in Fra…
	757
	758 <p>Beyond these simple professions of envy or admiration, the conserva…
	759 </blockquote>
	760
	761 <p>Is it not all here, right down to the moneyed interests allying with …
	762
	763 <div class="footnotes">
	764 <hr />
	765 <ol>
	766
	767 <li id="fn:fn18">
	768 <p>Burke, <em>Sublime and the Beautiful</em>, 86, 96, 121, 165. <a …
	769 </li>
	770
	771 <li id="fn:fn19">
	772 <p>Burke, <em>Reflections</em>, 207, 243, 275. Also see Burke, <em>Regic…
	773 </li>
	774
	775 <li id="fn:fn20">
	776 <p>Burke, <em>Regicide Peace</em>, 184. <a href="#fnref:fn20" rev="…
	777 </li>
	778
	779 </ol>
	780 </div>
	781
	782 ]]></content:encoded>
	783 <dc:date>2012-08-19T15:06:03-00:00</dc:date>
	784 </item>
	785 <item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/stepback">
	786 <title>Take a step back</title>
	787 <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/stepback</link>
	788 <content:encoded><![CDATA[
	789 <p><em>This post introduces a new series, <a href="rawnerve">Raw Nerve</…
	790
	791 <p>For most of my life, I saw my job as just making good choices. I was …
	792
	793 <p>Even my problems I dealt with this way. If someone was annoying me, I…
	794
	795 <p>But recently I’ve started appreciating the virtues of stepping …
	796
	797 <p>It’s given me a weird feeling. I feel more in control of my lif…
	798
	799 <p>So I started wondering: <em>Is there more where that came from?</em> …
	800
	801 <p>It turns out to be surprisingly hard. Life comes with no instruction …
	802
	803 <p>The blogs are a weird mix. There are the blogs on “life hacks,&…
	804
	805 <p>So instead of an obvious place to go, I’ve just been finding li…
	806
	807 <p>So I figure I’ll just start writing about it here and see if an…
	808
	809 <p>I don’t have a name for what I’m talking about or even a …
	810
	811 <p><strong>Next in this series:</strong> <a href="dweck">Believe you can…
	812
	813 ]]></content:encoded>
	814 <dc:date>2012-08-18T15:10:26-00:00</dc:date>
	815 </item>
	816