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Introduction
Shane
A few years ago, I read an awesome book called The Upside of Stress by Dr. Kelly McGonigal, and I came across a story where she said, there's this really sharp psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin who used to be a former middle school English teacher and was fascinated with psychology and became obsessed with mindset and mindset intervention and stress.
He ventured into one of the lowest-income high schools in San Francisco at the time, and so the school is riddled with gangs and low test scores—you name it, you know, whatever, everything that befalls low-performing schools. And with one 30-minute mindset intervention with a test group, followed them through the year, that test group compared to the control group had, like, the GPA was way higher—a point higher. They missed fewer days of school. They had less anxiety, less depression, like, across the board. Their performance and their attitude was, like, sky high.