The Towboat and the Lighthouse

Carol Dweck's fixed mindset versus growth mindset explains why you can't force someone to change. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Real transformation requires the person's own willingness to grow.
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In the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, she says most people either have a fixed mindset or they have a growth mindset. A growth mindset is someone who knows, I can improve, I can get better. There's no limit to what I could become. A fixed mindset. As someone who looks at it and they say, this is me. This is the way I'm going to be forever. And so with your question of just, can we change people? Like, there's someone that everybody has, someone that they know and that they love, and they want them to be better. They want them to go on this path of becoming better. But it's like the phrase, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Lots of people like to do stuff through force of I know what you need. I want to help you improve. You love this person so much that you want them to become better because you know that they would be happier. You know they would be whatever it is, they would find more joy in the day if they made these changes.
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