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AND mindset vs OR mindset — which one liberates you? #shorts #podcast

17 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang explores how an "or" mindset traps you in either-or choices, while an "and" mindset lets you hold multiple identities at once. A 25-year-old chartered accountant can also be learning physics instead of picking one. Reframing how you describe yourself shrinks the limits you think exist.

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So you said something like, be the and person and the universe shrinks. And I think this and mindset is super powerful because as you're saying, people live with that or, that I can be either this or that, and that kind of limits our growth.
And the and can be very liberating because, you know, you kind of don't have to think that I'm now 25, so it's too late to learn what I missed in the 8th grade. No, I mean, I'm an and person. I'm a 25-year-old who's a chartered accountant and is trying to learn the 3 laws of physics. So, you know, just reframe it in whichever way you want to, and that just creates possibilities for yourself.