Interlude: Mindset, Honorary Authorship, and AI-Generated Abstracts

Your mindset is powerful.

And whether you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset can influence your success in writing.

According to Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, people with a fixed mindset believe that their qualities are carved in stone, whereas people with a growth mindset believe that their qualities can be cultivated through effort, strategy, and support.

How does this apply to your writing?

If you have a fixed mindset, you might be telling yourself limiting beliefs that hold you back from success with your writing. For example, you might think that you're not a good writer or that writing is hard.

However, if you have a growth mindset, you might be telling yourself empowering beliefs that support your success with writing. For example, you might think that you're working on improving your writing skills or that writing has challenges that you can overcome.

Do you find that you have a fixed mindset when it comes to your writing?

If so, there's good news: mindsets can be changed. So whenever you have a fixed-mindset thought about your writing, trade it for a growth-mindset thought.

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

🤔 Trade "I'm not a good writer" for "I'm not a good writer yet".

🤔 Trade "Why is writing so hard?" for "How can I make writing easier?"

🤔 Trade "Why do I keep making mistakes?" for "What can I learn from this?"

How does your mindset affect your writing?

Now onto this week's round-up...

💌 Round-up

👓 Reading

Honorary authorship is highly prevalent in health sciences: systematic review and meta-analysis of surveys​
"...HA [hyperauthorship] prevalence was 26% when respondents were asked if there are honorary authors on their publication at issue, and not explicitly informing authors about criteria for authorship. The pooled prevalence was 18% when they were asked the same question but ICMJE criteria were disclosed to them, and 51% when respondents were asked to declare their co-author(s) contributions and these contributions were then compared to the ICMJE criteria independently. This indicates that how questions are asked may affect HA estimates, but also that what researchers perceive as HA and may differ from how authorship is defined using ICMJE criteria."

​Can ChatGPT assist authors with abstract writing in medical journals? Evaluating the quality of scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT and original abstracts​
"ChatGPT generated an authentic-looking abstract with an appropriate structure and concise language while it attempted to extract relevant details to the methodology and results components of a RCT report. . . GPT-generated abstracts demonstrated significantly inferior overall quality as the original abstracts outperformed GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 by 22.22% and 37.30% in the OQS, respectively. Moreover, the original abstracts outperformed GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 in 10 and 14 of the 18 items from the CONSORT-A checklist, respectively. . . abstracts generated by GPT 3.5 were deemed to be most readable in 62.22% of cases in comparison to the GPT 4 and original counterparts, and it demonstrated minimal hallucination rate of 0.03 errors per abstract.

🖥️ Watching

How to Stop Holding Yourself Back​
In this 2.5-minute clip, Simon Sinek shares how taking control of your perspective can make you much more likely to succeed. I bookmarked the video and watch it every so often as a reminder of the power of your mindset.

💬 Quote

“The questions you ask yourself will largely determine the answers you get.

• “Why am I not successful?” You’ll get answers that berate you.

• “How can I succeed here?” You’ll get answers that push you.

Be deliberate in the questions you ask yourself.” – Julie Gurner

❓ Question

How is your mindset holding you back?

Thank you so much for reading.

Warmly,

Crystal