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Mindset Series Day 4 - Growth Mindset

3 Oct 2018 · 1 min

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Alex Swenson breaks down Carol Dweck's fixed versus growth mindset. Most people hold both. The key is spotting where you think you can't improve, then reframing failure as data instead of proof you're not good enough.

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The fixed mindset versus the growth mindset two mindsets that shape our lives so Dr. Dweck, a professor at Stanford University, has been studying this for decades and has discovered that people's mindsets play a crucial role in how their lives turn out. These two mindsets the fixed mindset basically believes that your intelligence and your skills are fixed. You were born with them. You're not going to learn and grow. The growth mindset believes that you can build your skills and intelligence and you can learn and grow over time. The kicker is most of us have both of these mindsets. You have to find the areas of your life where you have the fixed mindset because the fixed mindset is causing you to avoid experiences where you feel like you're going to be a failure, which is a big deal because you're not going to learn and grow. You have to look at failure in a different way. Through the growth mindset, you change your mindset, you change your life. Read that book, the Mindset. See you guys tomorrow.