# Why you need the growth mindset of a weed

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNext 2025
- Speaker: Stephen Nobles
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_nobles_why_you_need_the_growth_mindset_of_a_weed)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Educator Stephen Nobles believes curiosity is the key to unlocking a student's potential. In conversation with TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers, he encourages teachers to see every student through a lens of possibility — and asks what each of us might be missing when we let our assumptions go unchallenged.

## Lectures

1. [Why you need the growth mindset of a weed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/stephen_nobles_why_you_need_the_growth_mindset_of_a_weed/ee99995becbd), 16 min (TED's player)