The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination

This Week's Top Picks on Culture, Mindset, and Leadership

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Colin Jonov
August 21, 2025

The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination

Dear Fortitude family,

Welcome back to my midweek motivation! Each day and week brings its own set of experiences and inspirations, compelling me to share my thoughts with all of you.

I'm excited to share my top picks of the week from social media, and I encourage everyone to send in the posts that inspire you. There's a wealth of amazing content out there that deserves recognition! As our community expands, I'll make sure to highlight the submissions that resonate with all of us. Let's keep sharing and growing together!

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Did You Know?

Mind your errors: evidence for a neural mechanism linking growth mind-set to adaptive posterror adjustments - PubMed

How well people bounce back from mistakes depends on their beliefs about learning and intelligence. For individuals with a growth mind-set, who believe intelligence develops through effort, mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn and improve. For individuals with a fixed mind-set, who believe in …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22042726

This 2011 study by Moser et al. investigated how growth mindset versus fixed mindset affects neural responses to mistakes. Using EEG to measure brain activity, researchers found that individuals with a growth mindset (who believe intelligence develops through effort) showed enhanced error positivity (Pe) brain responses, reflecting greater awareness and attention to mistakes. These growth-minded participants also demonstrated superior accuracy after making errors compared to fixed-mindset individuals. Crucially, the Pe brain response mediated the relationship between mindset and post-error performance, suggesting that neural mechanisms for mistake awareness are fundamental to growth-minded individuals' ability to bounce back from errors.

To Building Fortitude.

Warm regards,

Colin Jonov CEO & Founder, Athletic Fortitude

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