Mindset Shifts - What Are They, Why Do They Matter, How Do They Happen

Summary

FrameWorks Institute’s attempt to bring precision to loose talk of narrative change. Mindsets are “deep, assumed patterns of thinking”, largely tacit and part of culture, and they can make the social order look natural or open it to challenge. Shifting them “takes decades, not months or even years”, and is “generally not sufficient alone to produce social change.”

Rationale

Its definitions and its patience match ours, but we part company on the frame: it sees patterns of thinking to shift, where we see embodied habits to cultivate.