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Worst is the whole country's cultures who really believe that each person can only be great at one single thing. Being great at multiple things? Impossible, rig
by nxb 11y ago
Worst is the whole country's cultures who really believe that each person can only be great at one single thing. Being great at multiple things? Impossible, right?
- teach 11y agoI don't I think I know a single person that thinks a person can only be great at a single thing. Or that everyone is even great at anything. I don't who these people are, but they're certainly not in Dweck's article.
- gojomo 11y agoIt'd be helpful for ~nxb to be specific about which country cultures have this problem. But of all the people you know who don't think this way, how many are representative examples of a (non-US) national culture? (And if you know them well enough to judge this, are they perhaps outliers who left another culture?) The US – and perhaps especially (your home) Texas or more generally the US west – is relatively open to the idea of excellence coming from anyone and in arbitrary combinations, compared to many other more fatalistic/hierarchical/caste-oriented cultures.
- nxb 11y agoIt's a region-level culture I'm talking about. In this case, I was thinking of Eastern Europe culture. You're in for a MASSIVE culture shock, if you ever get employed there. For this, and many other reasons. The cultural expectations in business are often the far opposite of that of the US. Don't forget that individuals and group culture are two distinct things, but both are very real things. Let's be clear about which one of those we're talking about.
- teach 11y agoI'm a high school teacher in a public school in Austin, TX. I plan to teach at that school until I retire and write and sell books along the way. If I ever find myself employed in Eastern Europe then something dramatic will have happened. The difference in culture is interesting, though, since I don't have to live/work there!