Dr. Wayne Pernell argues that adopting a learner mindset early makes the difference between seeing challenges as setbacks or growth opportunities. When you identify as a student, he says, obstacles fuel resilience instead of feeling like overwhelming disadvantages.
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And so from then on, I intentionally adopted, you know, I realized how much from, like, an early age, I had that, you know, that wealth of experience of investing in that learning mentality of being a student. And then I leaned in even more. And last thing I'll say on that note is that it's so interesting to me that, like, when people, when people are on their journey, and it's because of that reason, actually, that this is a. This is a, this is a reality. When you don't have your identity as a learner, when things inevitably come up for you on your journey that require you to learn something. Well, now it's almost like a hands thrown up. Oh, wow, I should have been. Oh, my gosh, I'm such a disadvantage.