Limitless Mind

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Jo Boaler. Limitless Mind

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When I visited one of the Arrowsmith schools for the first time, I saw students sitting at computer screens intensely concentrating on their cognitive tasks. I asked Barbara if the students were happy doing this, and she replied that students stay motivated because they can feel the effects of the program very quickly. Many of the students I spoke to talked in the same terms—after they started on the cognitive tasks, they felt a “fog lifting” and were able to make sense of the world. When I visited the Arrowsmith school for the second time, I sat and talked to some adults going through the program.

Shannon was a young lawyer who had become concerned after criticism for the length of time it took her to produce her work, as people typically pay for lawyers’ time by the hour. She was referred to Arrowsmith and decided to enroll for a summer. When I met her, a few weeks into the program, she told me that it was already “life changing” for her. Not only was Shannon thinking a lot more efficiently, but she was able to make connections she had not been able to make before. She was even making sense of events that had happened in her past, even though she had not been able to make sense of them at the time. Shannon, like the others, talked about a “fog lifting” from her mind; she said she used to be a passenger in conversations, but now “everything is clear” and she is able to participate fully.

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