Growth Mindset 2

(Wednesday)

Context:

To some extent, everyone possesses a growth mindset, even those currently influenced by a fixed mindset. In this lesson, we'll explore strategies for further cultivating and strengthening our growth mindset.

Why it’s important: Employers highly esteem employees who are willing to embrace challenges. This is because managers and companies encounter daily challenges. Businesses, services, and technologies are devised to tackle issues. To become an effective problem-solver who can rise to any challenge, having a growth mindset is essential.

Fuel your growth mindset.

There are many ways to develop a growth mindset. Let’s consider two specific ways to develop your growth mindset. Both take effort and time to develop. Will you be willing to do what it takes to maintain or strengthen your growth mindset?

Watch the video.

Growth Mindset: Six additional ways to strengthen your growth mindset.

  1. See your challenges as opportunities.

  2. Reflect each day on what you've failed at (and learned from).

  3. Stop seeking approval from others.

  4. Identify opportunities to celebrate the success of others.

  5. Focus on rewarding actions, not traits.

  6. Start using the word "yet" more often (see our Yet Method lesson).

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Carol Dweck studies human motivation. She spends her days diving into why people succeed (or don’t) and what’s within our control to foster success. Her theory of the two mindsets and the difference they make in outcomes is incredibly powerful.

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset:

Which is more dominant in your thinking?

Growth mindset:

Embrace lifelong learning

  • Believe intelligence can be improved

  • Put in more effort to learn

  • Believe effort leads to mastery

  • Believe failures are just temporary setbacks

  • View feedback as a source of information

  • Willingly embraces challenges

  • View others’ success as a source of inspiration

  • View feedback as an opportunity to learn

Fixed Mindset:

Believe intelligence and talent are static

  • Avoid challenges to avoid failure

  • Ignore feedback from others

  • Feel threatened by the success of others

  • Hide flaws so as not to be judged by others

  • Believe putting in the effort is worthless

  • View feedback as personal criticism

  • Give up easily

www.mindsethealth.com

Try this activity.

Write the first thing that comes to your mind (tail-enders) as you read or say the following:

1) I am very smart.

2) I will be successful in the future.

3) I hate to work hard.

4) I love a challenge.

5) I will never have the life I want.

When you read, said, and thought about the statements, what did your mind say after each sentence? ​

Analyze your tail-enders and your self-talk. What did your answers reveal?

Do you lean towards having a ‘growth’ or ‘fixed’ mindset? ​

Write down your observations in your journal. What did you learn about yourself and which mindset dominates your thinking at this moment? Do you need to make any changes?

Thought of the day.

With the right mindset, you can make the impact you were born to make.