Limitless Mind, Jo Boaler
Limitless Mind, Jo Boaler
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Limitless Mind
Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

Author: Jo Boaler

Narrator: Jo Boaler

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/03/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.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.

About Jo Boaler

Dr. Jo Boaler is a professor of education and equity at Stanford University and the faculty director of youcubed—an education resource that has reached over 230 million students. She is the author of the first MOOC on mathematics teaching and learning, as well as nine mathematics books and numerous research articles. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, The Telegraph, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and many other news outlets. She was named by the BBC as one of eight educators “changing the face of education.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Régis on April 22, 2020

A few inspiring ideas for personal development. But these ideas are repeated so many times and the book is filled with so many testimonials and anecdotes, that I didn't find the book interesting. Let me save you a few hours. tl;dr: - Neuroplasticity is proven. At any age, the brain can change, form, st......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on July 11, 2019

Limitless Mind by Jo Boaler presents the idea that brains are not fixed from birth. Boaler shares research and studies that back up this message as well as how this can help us move from from the fixed brain mindset to the brain growth mindset as learners. Boaler is a professor at Stanford and backs......more

Goodreads review by Maire on March 09, 2021

Ma ootasin sellelt raamatult natuke midagi muud, aga see ei tähenda, et poleks siit midagi kasulikku leidnud. Lugeda võiksid seda nii õpetajad kui lapsevanemad, sest siit saab päris konkreetseid nippe, kuidas lapsi nii õpetada, et neil sellest maksimaalselt kasu oleks. Fookus on rohkem matemaatikal,......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 29, 2020

This book got me thinking about Batman. Batman is so different from all the other superheroes. He fell in a cave with bats and then all of a sudden felt like he could relate to them and started calling himself Batman. Did he get bitten by a radioactive spider or anything? (that question mark looks S......more

Goodreads review by Christine on December 12, 2019

Embrace struggle and failure, take risks, look forward and be positive,, be open to different ways of thinking, sometimes we won’t succeed and that is okay. Just a few of my takeaways from my new favorite book! Share this with yourself, your students and your fiends, you won’t be disappointed!......more