Becoming Superhuman
Asians Might Be High-Achieving Thanks To a Growth-Mindset
…This can make the difference between people who achieve and people who have the potential to achieve, but don’t
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4 min readDec 3, 2019
Although it is indeed mostly stereotypical that Asians are “always smarter”, it has been shown by statistics that they end up, on average, with higher grades than other Americans: Handbook of Asian American Psychology.
The thing is, Asians don’t necessarily have a much higher IQ than other countries in the world (Singapore has an average IQ of 107.1).
According to this book, however:
The “achievement-gap” can be explained because of possessing a different mindset, namely a growth-mindset.
First of all, what is the difference between a fixed-mindset and a growth-mindset? And could this explain the achievement-gap?
